Norfolk and Ocean View Railroad, 1890s

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Norfolk and Ocean View Railroad, 1890s
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By 1897, the Norfolk and Ocean View Railraoad was described as having 15 passenger cars – carrying more than 160,000 passengers in the year 1896. And in that year, its freight cars handled 1396 carloads of freight, 189 carloads being of garden truck exclusively. Trains left every half hour in the summer.

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Also after the line was electrified, a single track was added from Ocean View westward through Willoughby Spit, near the tip of which one could connect with a steamer to Old Point Comfort across Hampton Roads. (See photo of the ferry building, figure ZZZ.[in ferries…]) And, therefore, the name of the entire line became Norfolk, Ocean View, Willoughby Spit and Old Point Railway. The entire trip from the Norfolk terminus to Old Point was said to be forty minutes. (Norfolk, Virginia: A Great Maritime Port, 1897, p.36.) (See also plat of the Willoughby Bay Traction Co., Norfolk County Deed Book 303, p.461.)