Charlottesville's Union Station was built in 1885 to serve the Charlottesville and Rapidan Railroad, the Virginia Midlands Railway and the Chesapeake and Ohio. This picture was taken behind the station, looking west along what used to be the Chesapeake and Ohio mainline to the coal fields of West Virginia. Just beyond the station the tracks cross the north-south Norfolk Southern mainline.
In the mid 1970s, I rode a steam excursion from Manassas to Charlottesville. The locomotive was taken off the train here and towed by a C&O diesel to the turntable in the yards just east of here and turned around for the trip back to Manassas. The only thing left of the once bustling Charlottesvile rail yard is a coaling tower, which still stands along the tracks.
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