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In the late 1950s, a number of interested citizens, including Virginia Senator Mosby G. Perrow, Jr., requested the federal government to change its long-planned route for the interstate highway now known as I-64 between Clifton Forge and Richmond.
A proposed southern route called for the Interstate to follow from Richmond via US-360 and US-460, via Lynchburg to Roanoke and US-220 from Roanoke to Clifton Forge, then west following US-60 into West Virginia.
The new Richmond and Allegheny Railroad offered a water-level route from the Appalachian Mountains just east of West Virginia near Jackson's River Station ( now Clifton Forge ) through the Blue Ridge Mountains at Balcony Falls to Richmond.
Clifton Forge is a town in Alleghany County, Virginia, United States which is part of the Roanoke Region.
Amtrak, the national passenger rail service, provides service to the Clifton Forge station with the Cardinal route.
Also Clifton Forge serves a major locomotive fuel facility for CSX Transportation and is home to the Chesapeake & Ohio Historical Society and C & O Railway Heritage Center.
Note: The town of Clifton Forge is not included in any Alleghany County population data in the main article.
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