by Tina McCloud
You board the Northern Neck Railroad at the depot in Heathsville, riding in the cab with the engineer so you can take in all the sights and sounds.
During your round-trip journey, you travel parallel to Main Street in Reedville, cross the Great Wicomico River, go to White Stone and Irvington, where you can hop on the trolley line to Fredericksburg and Tappahannock.
On to Kinsale and Weems you travel, to the railroad service yard at Irvington, behind the beach pavilion at White Stone, back to Reedville, down a small grade to Fairport with its fish factories, then back to Heathsville.
Welcome to “The Railroad That Never Was.” Or “the railroad that could have been” if investors had bought enough stock to build it 100 years ago.
The Northern Neck Railway and Power Company was formed on March 23, 1920, by offering shares of stock priced at $100. The company proposed to construct an electrified rail line….
