From the Richmond Examiner, 2/23/1866, p. 3, c. 2

THE EIGHTH STREET RAILROAD TRACK. – We have generally feltcalled upon to rejoice, to go upon long excursions and to drink much wine in celebration of the opening of a railroad route, or the first breaking of the ground and the laying of the first rail. At present we feel like renewing our feelings at the sight of the removal of the unsightly and useless incumbrance of rails from Eighth street. Some days since we called the attention of the Council and the Street Commissioner to the existence of the nuisance, and for once our remarks have been heeded. Workmen have been engaged for several days in taking up the rails, and the job was completed yesterday. Eighth street, therefore, will be in a navigable condition for vehicles. The rails, if they are fit for further service, might be put to good use in relaying a portion of the track of the City Passenger one-horse railway to Rocketts, out Main street. This is a “consummation devoutly to be wished,” and the re-establishing of the route would indeed be the signal for an old-fashioned rejoicing on the part of the citizens. The present line of omnibuses running to Rocketts is of about as much convenience to the publick as the weekly line of coaches across the Western plains. Their running is so irregular that no calculation can be made, and those on the lookout for them are sure to miss the first one, and have to wait half an hour for the next.

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