| Camera Maker | Canon | Camera Model | Canon PowerShot G5 |
| Aperture | f/4 | Color Space | sRGB |
| Exposure Value | 0 EV | Exposure Time | 1/80 sec |
| Flash | No Flash | Focal Length | 8 mm |
| Date/Time | 2004:04:03 07:31:14 | Orientation | 1: Normal (0 deg) |
| Resolution Unit | Inch | X Resolution | 180 dots per ResolutionUnit |
| Y Resolution | 180 dots per ResolutionUnit | Compression | Jpeg Compression |
| Exposure Mode | 0 | Keywords | historic marker Chesterfield Railroad Virginia attraction display education historical marker Historical Site information landmark marker Place of Interest sign Tourist Destination Travel Destination attractive destination educating historic markers historic site info signage tourist attraction VA appealing history no people text tourism travel South attract historic nobody word daytime displays historical markers landmarks markers signs appeal color image educate historical outdoor vertical day destinations historic sites tourist attractions US colour image outside day time USA day-time U.S. words color images daylight outdoors U.S.A. verticals colour images Jason O. Watson / historical-markers.org natural light outsides United States United States of America Chesterfield County sign with text |
| Caption | CHESTERFIELD RAILROAD In 1829 the Virginia General Assembly chartered the Chesterfield Rail Road Company, which built the first railroad in Virginia. Moncure Robinson (1802-1891), a railroad pioneer, designed the track, which once passed by here. In 1831, the company began hauling coal 13 miles from the Midlothian mines ot the Manchester wharves on the James River. Horses and mules towed the loaded cars on some sections. Gravity propelled them on down hill grades and in one area the weight of the cars tugged the empty ones (connected to the full ones by ropes and drums) back toward the mines. This railroad functioned until 1851, when the locomotive-operated Richmond & Danville Railroad provided service to Chesterfield. Department of Historic Resources, 2002. |