Complex sentence: Throughout a profitable 50-year history, the VGN continued a Page-Rogers philosophy of "paying up front for the best" It sought (and achieved) best efficiencies in the mountains, rolling piedmont, and flat tidewater terrain.
Split into simpler sentences: Throughout a profitable 50-year history, the VGN continued the Page-Rogers philosophy of "paying up front for the best". It achieved best efficiencies in the mountains, rolling piedmont, and flat tidewater terrain.