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North Bend State Park sits on 2,459 acres (995 ha) [2] along the North Fork of the Hughes River in Ritchie County near Harrisville, West Virginia. The park is named after the sharp bend in the river that the formed three sides of the original park boundary. The North Bend Rail Trail, a 72-mile (116 km) hiking and biking corridor, is also ...
The B&O's premiere train, the National Limited, once traveled the route now occupied by the North Bend Rail Trail. A CSX work train emerges from the east portal of the 1,086-foot tunnel No. 2 near Salem on September 9, 1988. Tracks are being removed west of the tunnel. One of many tunnels along the North Bend Rail Trail.
The park's 305-acre (123 ha) North Bend Lake was created by an impoundment on the North Fork Hughes River in 2002. [151] [153] [154] North Bend Rail Trail: Category:North Bend Rail Trail State Park on Wikimedia Commons: Doddridge, Harrison, Ritchie, and Wood
White Oak Rail Trail: an asphalt trail along a 7.5-mile-long (12.1 km) abandoned Norfolk Southern Railway corridor that travels through Oak Hill, West Virginia, beginning near a church along West Virginia Route 612 on the south and ending at Summerlee Road on the north end, with a spur beginning near the existing Norfolk Southern Railway along ...
It was a mostly sunny day on July 4, 1929, when Droop Mountain became the first state park in West Virginia. According to newspaper accounts, as many as 10, 000 poured into the place, to see the ...
Eaton is a ghost town in Wood County, West Virginia, United States. It sat along the path of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad. Passenger service along the line (not picking up at Eaton) stopped completely in the fall of 1981. Eaton's long abandoned train station burned in the mid 1980s. All rail service on the line was discontinued in 1988.
The Greenbrier River Trail (GRT), [1] is a lineal state park comprising a 77.1-mile (124.1 km) rail trail between North Caldwell and Cass in eastern West Virginia, United States. [ 2 ] The GRT route and its contours were originally engineered by the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway , serving as a passenger and freight line before becoming unviable ...
North Bend State Park, West Virginia, US North Bend Township, Starke County, Indiana North Bend (Oscar, Louisiana) , listed on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) in Louisiana