November 15, 2022

A Red Caboose and a Railway Turned Trail

Herndon, VA

Tuesday Treasures / Wordless / Ruby Tuesday


The W&OD Railway and Jim Crow Lawsp
“As with other rail lines in Virginia, the Southern was required to have a separate car for African-Americans and Native Americans to ride in as a way to comply with the law.

After 1912, this wasn’t always possible since the W&OD usually ran single passenger cars, so separation of the races occurred within the cars with African-Americans seated to the rear.”



10 comments:

  1. And there are those who would like to go back to those days.

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  2. ...once I was going to buy a caboose.

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  3. Love the red caboose! Take care, have a great day!

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  4. May those days never return. Alana ramblinwitham.blogspot.com

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  5. There's some charm to that, isn't there?
    Thanks for sharing at https://image-in-ing.blogspot.com/2022/11/10-months-gone.html

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  6. NICE red caboose! I like when trains had cabooses.

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  7. Great photos! Thanks for sharing the background and history. As bookworm said above, we hope those days never return!

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  8. I used to pass that caboose every day on my bike. :-)

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