Self-Guided Tours of Towns On Trail- June 4, 2002: found another Sears house within a half-block of the trail.
- Aug 1, 2001: Added a description of a kit house from Montgomery Ward to the descriptions of kit houses from Sears and Roebuck.
- June 17: On the home page is a photographs of the week. The previous photographs of the week now have their own page.
- Mar. 4: Spun off two routes from this trail to the C and O Towpath and Intersecting bike trails from biking page.
- Feb. 16, 2001: From Old Houses spun off Arlington Houses, Falls Church Houses, Fairfax Houses, Loudoun Houses, Sears Houses Built From Kits, Annual Home Tours, Houses Open To The Public, and Demolished Houses.
- Feb. 14, 2001: split off This Old House from Old Houses
- Feb. 13, 2001: split off Civil War Sites from main Civil War
- Jan. 12, 2001: Barns near the trail(legacy from Northern Virginia's rural past
- Jan. 12, 2001: Walking Tour of Barcroft, a neighborhood near the trail in Arlington. Plan to create a tour of Glencarlyn, too.
- Jan. 2001: split off links from main home page of this site.
- Vapor ware: Bed and breakfast inns, campsites and inexpensive hotels along the trail's western end.
- Vapor ware: The future of the trail amid higher density development (sprawl.)
- Sep 13: Herndon Walking Tour; also improved in November, 2000 and February, 2001
- Aug 31: Leesburg Walking Tour; further improved in November
- June: Railroad Suburbs
- Apr. 2000: New Bike Commuting, Photos of Railroad, and Photo essay on destruction of a culvert over Tripps Run
- Apr 2000. You know Spring is here when you see all the activity on the trail. I added some old railroad pictures of Vienna and Dunn Loring. I also have more pictures of culverts and trestles to add, but they don't seem to be in much demand. Added a calendar of all the events, too.
- Mar, 2000: restored more pictures and information on the railroad in the Civil War, which I had previously posted in January, but which I deleted by mistake soon afterward. The source of this was George Abdill's Civil War Railroads.
- Mar., 2000: added pictures of highest trestles, houses in Dunn Loring, and the headquarters of Robert Lee in Leesburg.
- Noted that Herbert Harwood is working on a second edition of his book on the W and OD.
- Feb, 2000: took several photos of the trestles over Goose Creek and Sycolin Creek in the snow. Will add these to the trestles page.
- More photos due for Dunn Loring Guided Tour and Sterling Guided Tour.
- finished tours of Reston, Hamilton.
- Planned to copy the wildlife pages of the Ivy Creek Foundation (in Virginia), but must first contact them for permission. These would replace my Wildlife page, which isn't up to snuff.
- Several new photographs of old houses added.
- planned to break off Nature Centers and Museums from Wildlife.
- Jan 2000: re-vamped navigation.
- Jan, 2000: planned a photo-essay on trestles and culverts and assorted historical photos of the railroad
- Jan. 2000: new Western Trail in the Civil War and Western Train Stations
- Dec. 1999: Tour of Ashburn
- Picture of Ashburn.
- Added a second walking tour, this of Falls Church. Previously I worked on a walking tour of Vienna. Dec. 10th. The next candidates are Herndon, Purcellville, followed by Leesburg.
- Nov. 29: added a page on camping on the W&OD Trail.
- Nov. 20, 1999: joined web rings for Civil War and railroad to attract more traffic.
- November, 1999: began re-design of navigation. New menus.
- October, 1999: upgraded the tracking of hits.
- September, 1999: added search capabilities.
- September, 1999: Photo -- West of Lee Highway, a fire station rises next to the trail.
- Summer, 1999: Arlington County is erecting identification markers at frequent regular intervals to be used in emergencies in conjunction with cell phone calls to 911.
- Summer, 1999: The Northern Virginia Regional Park Authority has just opened a new 40 car parking lot for W&OD Trail users at the trail intersection at Ashburn Road in Loudoun County. This lot is just on the opposite side of the trail from the famous Partlows Brothers Store, near Mile Marker 28.
- Spring, 1999: Added a memoir of life on the W&OD in Herndon after World War II. Herndon was considered to be countryside then! Mar 15, 1999.
- Link to Belmont in Old Towns. Feb. 24, 1999. Also removed NVRPA logo in response to a complaint.
- Link to picture of Great Falls Railroad Station
- Link to Loudoun Road Runners in Running.
- October, 1998: Link to new page on the W&OD in Alexandria in Remembering the Railroad and in Old Towns Along the Way
- Map of the railroad on the eve of the Civil War in (where else?) Civil War
This page was last modified June 7, 2002.
