What was created to transport high quality "smokeless" bituminous coal from southern West Virginia to port at Hampton Roads, who's attorney was an officer in the Confederate States Army ?
Walter H. Taylor:  During the American Civil War, he was an officer in the Confederate States Army, attaining the rank of lieutenant colonel as an aide to General Robert E. Lee. Walter H. Taylor:  He was later a senator in the Virginia General Assembly, and attorney for the Norfolk and Western Railway and later the Virginian Railway. Virginian Railway: The Virginian Railway (reporting mark VGN) was a Class I railroad located in Virginia and West Virginia in the United States. Virginian Railway:  The VGN was created to transport high quality "smokeless" bituminous coal from southern West Virginia to port at Hampton Roads.
Virginian Railway