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orchard production, for its size, of any Virginia county and rapid, low-cost means of moving large quantities of fruit were needed.
In the late 1800s, the railroad seemed a fine alternative.
Railroads had long been nearby; both Culpeper and Front Royal had trains prior to the Civil War and after the War had proved highly competitive with other modes of transportation. The steel-rail had already knocked out the canal barges of the Rappahannock Navigation Company that once transported goods on our namesake river from Fredericksburg to Waterloo (north of today’s US 211 crossing of the Rappahannock). Local citizens realized the potential of this transportation technology and worked hard to bring the tracks down home.
But Rappahannock’s location just off-the-beaten-track coupled with local reluctance to provide private capital and skepticism about public fund
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