Is crew access allowed on the 100K course?

Yes, crew access is allowed on the 100K course. Crew can reach runners at Farmville, River Road/Camp Paradise, Rice, Tuggle, Prospect, Elam and Pamplin. River Road/Camp Paradise and Elam are road intersections with no aid station. No crew at Orchard Road because of limited parking. Park only in designated areas.

Are drop bags allowed on the 100K course?

Yes, drop bags are allowed on the 100K course. 100k drop bags go to the Prospect Fire Station. Bags must be marked with the runner's name and bib, and return to the start when the aid station closes. Runners may also keep a bag at the start line for the halfway point.

Are pacers allowed on the 100K course?

Yes, pacers are allowed on the 100K course. A pacer may join starting at mile 30.4. Pacers are allowed any time after mile 30.4. They must check in with the race director ahead of time and wear identification. They may use aid station food and drink like a runner.

What is the cutoff time for the 100K course?

The overall time limit for the 100K course is 19 hours from the start. The race begins at 7:30am and ends at 2:30am, a 19 hour limit.

Freight Train 100k/50k 2026: Cutoffs, Start Time

The course

Where it goes · 9 aid stations

The 100k starts at the Farmville Train Depot and heads east on the High Bridge Trail to an unmanned turnaround at trail's end, then back to the halfway point at the start/finish. It then heads west past Tuggle and Prospect to the Pamplin turnaround and retraces its steps to the finish.

A relatively flat rail trail with a slight incline in each direction as you leave the starting line. One long stretch has no aid station: Prospect to the Pamplin turnaround is 6.5 miles, so carry enough water.

The race

What this one is

A December race on the High Bridge Trail, a rail trail through Farmville, Virginia. A 100k, a 50k and a half marathon all start at the Farmville Train Depot, with hiker options at the 50k and half marathon. Runners cross the High Bridge twice. The 100k has a 19 hour limit, and the 50k has no limit of its own beyond the 100k's closing time.

Getting in

Getting in Entry, lottery and what the race asks of you before race day.

Lottery: not checked yet

Lottery opens: not checked yet

Lottery draw: not checked yet

Field cap: not checked yet

Registration: UltraSignup virginiaadventures.com

Qualifying: not checked yet

Minimum age: not checked yet

Transfers: No virginiaadventures.com

Deferrals: Yes ultrasignup.com

Running, crewing, pacing or still deciding

How NavRun helps with Freight Train 100k/50k Nineteen hours.

You are running it

You reach Farmville Train Depot (halfway), mile 30, and you already knew this morning what time that would be.

An arrival time for all 5 stations, worked out from your own training.

Start free →

You are pacing

You are at Prospect Fire Station, mile 39.5, warm and fed.

The same sheet says when they reach you.

You are deciding

You find out Freight Train 100k/50k is months of work away, not years, and you enter.

Put in a race you have already run. NavRun shows you where this one sits from where you are.

No account needed →

Crew access, pacers and drop bags

The rules that shape your day Anything marked "not checked yet" is a gap in what we hold, never a no from the race.

Crew allowed: Yes docs.google.com

Vehicles per runner: not checked yet

Pacers: Yes, from mile 30.40 virginiaadventures.com

Muling: not checked yet

Drop bags: Yes virginiaadventures.com

Cupless: not checked yet

Course marking: not checked yet

Night running: Yes ultrasignup.com

Dogs: not checked yet

Headphones: not checked yet

Crew rules: Crew can reach runners at Farmville, River Road/Camp Paradise, Rice, Tuggle, Prospect, Elam and Pamplin. River Road/Camp Paradise and Elam are road intersections with no aid station. No crew at Orchard Road because of limited parking. Park only in designated areas. docs.google.com

Pacer rules: Pacers are allowed any time after mile 30.4. They must check in with the race director ahead of time and wear identification. They may use aid station food and drink like a runner. docs.google.com

Drop bag rules: 100k drop bags go to the Prospect Fire Station. Bags must be marked with the runner's name and bib, and return to the start when the aid station closes. Runners may also keep a bag at the start line for the halfway point. virginiaadventures.com

Cutoff philosophy: The race begins at 7:30am and ends at 2:30am, a 19 hour limit. ultrasignup.com

Aid stations

Every stop, and what you get there ● yes ○ no ? nobody has checked – does not apply to this race

Mile	Station	Cutoff	Crew access	Bag	Pacer	Med	To next
?	Farmville Train Depot (start) NoneSignal wrong?	?	?	?	?	?	?
8.20	Rice NoneSignal wrong?	?	●	?	?	?	4.80
13.00	Orchard Road NoneSignal wrong?	?	○	?	?	?	17.00
30.00	Farmville Train Depot (halfway) NoneSignal wrong?	?	●	?	?	?	?
?	Tuggle NoneSignal wrong?	11:30pm	●	?	?	?	?
39.50	Prospect Fire Station NoneSignal wrong?	?	●	●	?	?	?
?	Elam NoneSignal wrong?	?	●	?	?	?	?
46.40	Pamplin Turnaround NoneSignal wrong?	?	●	?	?	?	?
?	Farmville Train Depot (finish) NoneSignal wrong?	2:30am	?	?	?	?	?

Same race, other lines

Other distances and other years

Other distances: 1/2 Marathon (Half Marathon)
Half Marathon Hiker (Half Marathon)
50K
50K Hiker (50K)

What it looks like out there

Somebody has been out there with a camera the tables say the climb is long. these say what long feels like.

3 people have been out there with a camera or a microphone.

Social account

virginiaadventures1

Social account

Virginia Adventures

Social account

Official channel

Virginia Adventures

Official channel

All (3) Official channel (1) Social account (2)

These are other people's work and we link straight to them. Watching costs nothing and needs no account. More of them: every race we hold, on film.

Add to this page

What you know every one of these is read by a person before it changes anything

Ran this race? Tell the next runner what you know.

Nobody sees it until we have read it. No account, no sign-in.

Which distance? Leave blank if it applies to the whole race.

Which stop? Leave blank if it is not about one particular stop.

Give it a short title: Optional. Something like “Cal Street, mile 62 to 78”.

What do you wish someone had told you? Write it the way you would say it to someone at the start line.

Were you there? Optional, and it decides nothing. It only tells the next runner where this is coming from.

What year? Optional.

Your email: Optional, and never shown on the page. Only so we can ask you a question about this note.

Website: Leave this field blank.

See something wrong or out of date? Suggest an edit.

This changes nothing on the page on its own. Somebody checks it against the race first.

Which detail? Optional. Filled in for you when you start from a specific line on the page.

What does the page say now? Copy it as it appears, so we can find it.

What should it say? The corrected value.

How do you know? Required. Where it came from: the race email, the runner manual, what you saw on the day.

A link that shows it: Optional.

Or a photo of it: Optional. A screenshot or a photo of the sign works.

Were you there? Optional, and it decides nothing.

What year? Optional.

Your email: Optional, only so we can come back to you about this correction.

Which distance? Leave blank if it is about the whole race.

Which stop? Leave blank if it is not about one particular stop.

Website: Leave this field blank.

Were you out there? Say which stops a text got out from.

Nobody sees it until we have read it. No account, no sign-in.

What year? Were you there?

Optional, and it decides nothing.

Your phone company:

Which stops did a text get out from?

Leave a stop blank if you did not try, or do not remember.

100K

50K

Farmville Train Depot (start)
Yes
No
Rice mile 8.2
Yes
No
Tuggle mile 22.1
Yes
No
Farmville Train Depot (finish)
Yes
No

1/2 Marathon

Half Marathon turnaround mile 6.6
Yes
No

Your email:

Optional. Never shown.

Seen a course preview or a film of this one? Send it over.

Somebody watches it before it goes anywhere near this page. What we are after is footage of this course, on the ground. If it would be just as true of any other race, it is not this.

What does it show that the page cannot? Required. A line is plenty. Where the climbs are, what the footing does, what the last twenty miles look like.

Were you there? Optional, and it decides nothing.

What year? Optional.

Your email: Optional, and never shown on the page. Only so we can ask you a question about this one.

Where is it? A YouTube link, a race report, a photo gallery, whatever it is.

What kind of thing is it?

Who made it? Optional, and we credit them on the page.

Website: Leave this field blank.

Have the GPX? Send us the link.

We want the address of the file the race publishes, not the file. We download it from there so the page can say where the line came from.

Are you the race director? Get in touch and we'll make it right.

We read every one of these and we write back. Every fact here carries the source it came from, and the way a wrong one gets fixed is a person checking it against what you tell us.

Freight Train 100k/50k

Who's going to Freight Train 100k/50k?

Where it goes · 9 aid stations

What this one is

Getting in Entry, lottery and what the race asks of you before race day.

How NavRun helps with Freight Train 100k/50k Nineteen hours.

The rules that shape your day Anything marked "not checked yet" is a gap in what we hold, never a no from the race.

Every stop, and what you get there ● yes ○ no ? nobody has checked – does not apply to this race

Other distances and other years

Somebody has been out there with a camera the tables say the climb is long. these say what long feels like.

What you know every one of these is read by a person before it changes anything

Which stops did a text get out from?

100K

50K

1/2 Marathon

Ultras change. We will tell you when this one does.