Fulton Yard is a rail yard on CSX Transportation's Peninsula Subdivision in Richmond, Virginia. It was originally owned by the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway, has 13 tracks, and is located along Virginia State Route 5 between the Fulton Bottom and Lower Rockets sections of Richmond.
The Fulton Yard was formerly operated by the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway, who earmarked $150,000 for improvements there to be completed in 1924.1 The yard was believed to be the source of oil pollution in the James River in 1988.2
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- "Improvements on C. & O. In State to Cost $4,000,000". Richmond Times-Dispatch. October 17, 1923.
- Sundquist, Eric (January 30, 1988). "Fulton Yard Seen as Source of Oily Sheen". Richmond Times-Dispatch. Retrieved 15 June 2025.
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