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 ?
Virginian Railway
Walter H. Taylor
Walter Herron Taylor (June 13, 1838 – March 1, 1916) was an American banker, lawyer, soldier, politician, author, and railroad executive from Norfolk, Virginia.
 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.
 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.
 The VGN was created to transport high quality "smokeless" bituminous coal from southern West Virginia to port at Hampton Roads.
Hampton Roads Beltway
The Hampton Roads Beltway is a loop of Interstate 64 and Interstate 664, which links the communities of the Virginia Peninsula and South Hampton Roads which surround the body of water known as Hampton Roads and comprise much of the region of the same name in the southeastern portion of Virginia in the United States.
 It crosses the harbor of Hampton Roads at two locations on large four-laned bridge-tunnel facilities: the eastern half carries Interstate 64 (and U.S. Route 60) and uses the Hampton Roads Bridge-Tunnel and the western half carries Interstate 664 and uses the Monitor-Merrimac Memorial Bridge-Tunnel.
 The beltway has the clockwise direction (as looking down at a map of the area) signed as the Inner Loop, and the counter-clockwise direction signed as the Outer Loop.
 The entire beltway, including the bridge-tunnels, is owned and operated by the Virginia Department of Transportation. Guffey Coal Act
The Guffey-Snyder Act was a law, officially known as the Bituminous Coal Conservation Act of 1935, passed in the United States in 1935 under Franklin D. Roosevelt as part of his New Deal.
 It created the Bituminous Coal Commission to set the price of coal and end other unfair practices of competition.
 The law also created the Bituminous Coal Labor Board to regulate maximum work hours and minimum wage but was later ruled to be unconstitutional because by giving power to the federal government to control prices, it infringed upon the economic liberty of free enterprise. Kay Moor, West Virginia
Kay Moor, also known as Kaymoor, is the site of an abandoned coal mine, coal processing plant and coal town near Fayetteville, West Virginia.
 The town site is located in the New River Gorge at Kaymoor Bottom .
 It is linked to the mine portal 560 ft above on Sewell Bench in the wall of the Gorge by conveyors.
 The mine exploited the New River Coalfield's Sewell Seam of "smokeless" low-volatile bituminous coal, while the town site was accessible only by the Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad's mainline in the Gorge.
 The last portion of the Kay Moor complex, Kaymoor Top was located at the Gorge rim and served as the terminus for the mountain haulage. Building the Virginian Railway
Building the Virginian Railway began as a project to create an 80 mi -long short line railroad to provide access for shipping of untapped bituminous coal reserves in southern West Virginia early in the 20th century.
 After facing a refusal of the big railroads (who had their own coal lands) to negotiate equitable rates to interchange and forward the coal for shipping, the owners and their investors expanded their scheme and built a U.S. Class I railroad which extended from some of the most rugged terrain of West Virginia over 400 mi to reach port at Hampton Roads near Norfolk, Virginia. Coal House (Williamson, West Virginia)
The Coal House in Williamson, West Virginia is a unique building built of coal masonry.
 The bituminous coal was quarried as blocks and dressed as stone using 65 tons of coal from the nearby Winifrede Seam.
 At the time of its construction it was the only coal building in West Virginia.
 The house was designed by architect Hassel T. Hicks of Welch, West Virginia and supervised by David M. Goode.
 The coal masonry was varnished for weather-resistance.
 Located adjacent to the Mingo County Courthouse, it houses the Tug Valley Chamber of Commerce. Vostochny Port (company)
Vostochny Port Joint Stock Company is the largest stevedore in Russia that specializes in handling bituminous coal leveraging automated conveyor and other bulk material handling equipment with operations reaching 100% automation.
 The port’s main cargo is bituminous coal mined in Kuzbass, Eastern Siberia and the Far East.
 More than 99% of handled commodity is exported, primarily to the Pacific Rim countries – Southern Korea, Japan and China.
 Voctochny Port is Russia’s largest coal terminal.
 In 2016 the stevedore handled 23.5 million tonnes of coal, or roughly about 30% of the total cargo throughput of the Far-East coal ports and about 20% of freight volumes handled at all Russian coal ports. New River Coalfield
The New River Coalfield is located in northeastern Raleigh County and southern Fayette County, West Virginia.
 Commercial mining of coal began in the 1870s and thrived into the 20th century.
 The coal in this field is a low volatile coal, and the seams of coal that have been mined include Sewell, Fire Creek, and Beckley.
 This is very high quality bituminous coal rated at approximately 15,000 btu .
 The New River coalfield is named after the north flowing New River.
 Over 60 coal towns were once located there, supported by independent commercial districts at Beckley, Oak Hill, Mount Hope, and Fayetteville.
 By the 21st century many coal camps had partially or completely returned to nature.
 These company towns were located along Dunloup (Loup) Creek, Laurel Creek, White Oak Creek, lower Piney Creek, and, of course, the New River.
 The mainline of the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway ran right through the center of this coalfield, with spurs branching off in many directions, and rail yards were maintained at Quinnimont, Raleigh, and Thurmond, WV.
 The Virginian Railway's main line also passed through the western side of the field as well.
 Companies such as the New River Company, New River & Pocahontas Consolidated Coal Co., and Mary Frances Coal Co. were the largest operators in the New River Coalfield, but there were many smaller ones as well.
 These companies recruited native born whites, immigrants from Southern and Eastern Europe, and African-Americans from the South to work in their coal mines and railroads.
 The mines began to close down after World War II and today there are very few active coal mines in the field.
 The New River Gorge is now the domain of the National Park Service and they have done what their budget allows to preserve the coal heritage of the area. Samuel Dixon (West Virginia)
Samuel Dixon (November 14, 1856 - July 6, 1934) was an industrialist and politician in West Virginia.
 Dixon was among the powerful and wealthy men who helped develop southern West Virginia's bituminous coal bearing-region during the late 19th and early 20th century.