Virginian box-cab electrics

Virginian box-cab electrics

By Angela Cotey | July 28, 2022

| Last updated on August 8, 2025


A trio of the Virginian Railway’s original box-cab electrics rolls downgrade with a freight at Oakdale, W.Va., in September 1953. The road electrified its main line between Mullens, W.Va., and Roanoke, Va., in the mid-1920s.
Richard J. Cook photo

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