Battles of Manassas • Tour the Battlefield • Monuments • The Armies
Stop 6 of the Manassas Battlefield Driving Tour is the Unfinished Railroad. The railroad had been intended to be an extension of the Manassas Gap Railroad to Alexandria that would have allowed traffic to avoid be transferred to the Orange & Alexandria Railroad. The war ended the plans. Instead, Jackson’s Confederates took advantage of the roadbed as a field fortification, which were the target of repeated savage but unsuccessful assaults in the 1962 battle. After the war the two railroads merged, and the rail line was never built.
Markers along the Unfinished Railroad loop trail:
1st Massachusetts Infantry trailside marker
2nd New Hampshire Infantry trailside marker
2nd (Leasure’s) Brigade trailside marker
45th Georgia Infantry trailside marker
49th Georgia Infantry wayside marker
63rd Pennsylvania Infantry trailside marker
Archer’s Brigade trailside marker
Grover’s Attack wayside marker
Unfinished Railroad marker
Unfinished Railroad – Attacks on Jackson wayside marker
Unfinished Railroad wayside marker
Location
Stop Six is on the east side of Featherbed Lane about 0.9 mile north of US 29 (Lee Highway) and about 0.4 mile north of Stop Six.