Industrial Lines

With the discovery of natural materials and the continuation of national industrialization, companies were formed to take advance of the harvesting and exporting of goods and materials. The Commonwealth of Virginia was no different with white pine in Southern Virginia, coal in Southwest Virginia, and agriculture pretty much everywhere else. Needing a transport system to move products and materials from one place to another in usually remote places, such as the mountains of Southwestern Virginia or the rural plains of Southern Virginia, caused many companies to construct their own independent industrial railroads. Some notable Industrial Railroads in Virginia include Olin Mathieson Chemical Corporation out of Saltville, Virginia, and the Hassinger Lumber Company out of Konnarock, Virginia. This page will list the individual pages for each industrial line in the Commonwealth.