The Norfolk and Western “611” steam engine will return to Manassas for the annual Heritage Railway Festival in 2016.
The 65-year-old Class J steam engine was the centerpiece of the 2015 annual Heritage Railway Festival. The engine was fresh off of a restoration and on a statewide viewing tour when it rolled into Downtown Manassas.
Those coming aboard Quantico Marine Corps Base will have their IDs scanned beginning in January.
The new security measure comes as Quantico upgrades the equipment and processes used at the base’s entrance gates. A new system called RAPIDGate will be installed, and everyone entering the base — including visitors to Quantico Town — will have their IDs scanned with electronic security scanners.
A neighborhood street is closed in Woodbridge this morning due to two unity line breaks.
Kentucky Avenue, between Maryland Avenue and Alaska Road is closed to a water main and gas main break, according to Prince William police.
Some students who now attend Brentsville, Forest Park, Hylton, and Osbourn Park high schools must decide if they want to stay at their schools, or attend the new Colgan High School opening next year.
For affected students, Colgan High School will become their “base” school because they live within the boundaries of the new school.
The Possum Point Power Station opened in 1948 as a coal-burning facility, generating electricity for the region.
Coal, when burnt, leaves behind coal ash — a fine powdery, toxic substance. That ash was placed in five ash ponds surrounding the power plant.
You can drop off of a coat to Dumfries to help refugees from Syria and Iraq.
Here’s more in a press release from Dumfries Mayor Jerry Foreman:
Donald Trump will rally the vote in Manassas on Wednesday.
The Republican will come to the Prince William County Fairgrounds at 7 p.m. to tell voters why he should be elected the next U.S. President.
A full-day Christmastime festival will take place near and along the Occoquan River.
Here are the details from Occoquan River Communities:
The Town of Quantico Police Department has its first new police vehicle in 20 years.
Here’s more in a press release written by Town of Quantico Mayor David Brown:
Fredericksburg line riders who Virginia Railway Express will see a new train starting Monday.
Virginia’s only commuter railroad added a new morning and afternoon train following the opening of the system’s Spotsylvania station last week. The new morning 304 train leaves Spotsylvania station bound for Washington’s Union Station at 5:23 a.m. The new afternoon 303 train leaves Union Station at 3:10 p.m.
