The Norfolk Virginian. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 186?-189?, 1895-01-01
Transportation LINES
nOTfoIk'S Splendid Facilities
by Rail and Water.
CONNECTIONS NORTH, SOUTH, EAST AND WEST
q Remarkable Showing Of Growth
and Development.
TIE GREET TRUNK RgIlDOGB
Lines le0dIng OnHOfd 10 The KINGS
Ch0mbGT.
1900 RIltS RAIL, 1900 MATER Transportation
CelGlGd Review o. he Respective lines BY
Roll Gnd WlIef.
5000 RIltS RAIL. $4,000 WATER TRANSPORTATION
DelQlGd Review 81 HE Respective lines bY
Roll Ond HlIN.

Norfolk has become in the pas
ten years @ great railroad terminal.
Great trunk lines with great rail
way connections put in quick reach,
THE KINGS CHAMBER AMONG THE
GREAT HARBoRs," as Maury the
great navigator and "Pathiinder OF
she Seas and Geographer of the
Main" described it. AS recent
writer remarked, "And Kings
chamber truly, it is to landsmen
dwelling on the PLAIN, q view quite
apart from the view of those who
down to the sea in ships" Baltimore
with half million souls, OCCUPYING
one OF the courts 10 this chamber,
the estuary of the Patapsco; and in
ats grand natural aqueducts and
fountains OF the James and Eliza
beth III Virginia, two other great
seaports OF trade Impressiyely rise.
Into and out of, back aud forth.
through these and other portals TO
1t, vast and cumulative stream of
the foreign commerce of the central
West and the central Southland
from tue eastern side of tho Miss
'ssippi Valley now between Chi
cago ana Memphis, towards the
great bay, nearly all the trunk lines
OF rail either lead or head.
And so it is. \ glance at the map
OF Norfolk g trade area will demon.
citrate this assertion. nearly eighteen
thousand miles of railroad. such q
terminal at this grand harbor. a
little more than twenty years ago
the short line of rail, not exceeding
two hundred miles, was the sum
total OF the railroad system that
furnished "a trade area" to Nor
folk. The growth has been phe
nomennl, aud tue promise is far
brighter for even greater stretch
in much less time than it has re
quired 10 secure what it now proud
~ claims. The trunk lines that
made this harbor their terminal are
The NORFOLK AND WEsTERN.
Tie SEABoARD AIR LINE.
The ATLANTIC COAST LINE.
HE CHESAPEAKE AND ONO.
HE ATLANTIC AND DASvILLF.
IHE NORFOLK AND SOUTHERN.
THE New York, PHILADELPHIA
ASD NORFOLK.
There nre begides two smaller
lines: the Norfolk, Albemarle and
Atlantic, aud the Ocean View. II
Is estimated Tint the number of pas.
senger trains running into and ont
OF Norfolk daily is 60, while the
number OF freight trims is stated 10
he about 30. Each twenty four
hours it IS asserted that nearly l.2On
car loads OF freight are DISCHARGED
at our depoie.
The growth Of the steam boat ami
steamboat transportation has how
ever necessarily Kept pace with that
OF the railroad development; not
only as 1t relates to one certain
trade. bnt also to the foreign bust
ness, and so much go in connection
with the latter line that III the last
gear two regular direct lines of
splendid freight ocean steamers toEu
rope have been established, viz, the
tnrniss line In connection with the
chesapeake ana Ohio railroad and
the Norfolk and North America
steamship Company, principally III
connection with the Norfolk aud
Western railroad. 1t IS estimated
there were over 1000 vessels
cleared coastwisc and foreign
last year. In the aggregate
OF It's maritime interests Nor
folk stands next to New Orleans
among the Southern ports. 1t has
grown much faster than any other
OF the South. Aside from the
foreign lines, stated above, it prin
oiPai steamship aud steam boat lines
pre- as follows:
HE OLD DoMGNloN,
IHE MERCHANTS AND MINERS.
The CLYDE.
HE WAsHlSGToN STEAMERS,
IHE BAY LINE STEAMERS.
HE JAMES RIVER,
BESIDES these ore steamboat !:.as
Sonnecting with the Sound section
Si NORM Carolina. the Nsrsamond