Editing Highland County, Virginia (section)

===Other transportation===
Highland County has no public airfields; however, there is a private airfield located within the county south of Monterey.<ref name="transport county"/>  Commercial air transportation is available at the [[Shenandoah Valley Regional Airport]] in neighboring Augusta County, Virginia.<ref name="community profile10">''[[#profile|Community Profile: Highland County]]'', p. 10.</ref>  Highland County also lacks any rail lines; the nearest railroad is a [[CSX Transportation]] line located in Augusta County, which also provides passenger rail service via [[Amtrak]] in [[Staunton (Amtrak station)|Staunton]].<ref name="transport county"/>  Historically, no permanent rail lines ever existed within the county's borders, though several were proposed. In the 1870s, there were prospects of a railroad named the Washington, Cincinnati, and St. Louis Railroad entering the county. This line was proposed as a [[narrow gauge railroad]] to be built from [[Harrisonburg, Virginia]] to Monterey and then westward into West Virginia, eventually reaching western markets. The railroad, which has been described as being "so poorly conceived that its failure was inevitable", was never built.<ref name="hilton">{{Hilton Narrow Gauge|pages=84–87}}</ref>  Another potential railroad to enter Highland County was chartered by the [[Virginia General Assembly]] on February 29, 1892, as the Augusta, Highland, and Alleghany Railroad. This railroad was to connect with either the [[Chesapeake and Ohio Railway]] or Valley Railroad in Augusta County and build a line towards Monterey.<ref name="rail charter">{{cite book|title=Acts of the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Virginia|publisher=Commonwealth of Virginia|year=1892|pages=748–749|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=iL5OAQAAIAAJ}}</ref><ref name="history141">[[#OrenHistory|Oren]], 1911, p. 141.</ref> The Augusta, Highland, and Alleghany Railroad appears to have never been organized or built, as documents from 1911 and 1922 state that no railroad existed in the county.<ref name="history233">[[#OrenHistory|Oren]], 1911, p. 233.</ref><ref name="handbook25">[[#OrenHandbook|Oren]], 1922, p. 25.</ref>  The prospects of a railroad reaching Highland were limited due to the mountainous terrain and a general lack of sufficient traffic to make such an investment economically viable.<ref name="handbook25"/>