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Article: Va. railway has long history; 70-foot hulls await buyers. (South).(Edwards Marine Railway)(hulls available from Steiner Shipyard )
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- National Fisherman
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- September 1, 2003
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Many Southern boatyards sprang from Ma shoreline full of marsh grass and fiddler crab holes. Edwards Marine Railway of Gwynn's Island, Va., most certainly came from that heritage.
The busy boatyard with two railways is tucked away in the mouth of Edwards Creek. Typical of so many railways, it was started around 1930 by father-and-son Chesapeake Bay watermen, Emmett and Stewart Edwards, who got tired of losing money waiting around for railway space to open up.
Today, Stewart and his son Bobby run Edwards Marine Railway. "My daddy and I worked pound nets in a 40-foot log canoe named Rescue," Stewart says. "We'd go out and bend a shaft or mess a prop up ...