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The North Bend Rail Trail, a 72-mile (116 km) hiking and biking corridor, is also managed as a unit of the park. A new 305 acre (1.23 km 2 ) lake was recently added to the park. Features
The North Bend Rail Trail was built on one of the most distinguished railroad lines in U.S. history. [3] Chartered in 1851, the Northwestern Virginia Railroad built 103 miles from the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad (B&O) mainline at Grafton, West Virginia, to the Ohio River at Parkersburg, West Virginia. The line was sold to the B&O upon ...
Ellenboro is a town in Ritchie County, West Virginia, United States.The population was 222 at the 2020 census. [2] The town is located at the junction of U.S. Route 50 and West Virginia Route 16; the North Bend Rail Trail also passes through the town. [5]
WV 58 west (Virginia Avenue) to I-79: WV 131 north (Benedum Drive) – Airport: WV 76 east – Flemington: WV 279 west to I-79: Taylor US 250 north – Fairmont: west end of US 250 overlap: Pruntytown: US 250 south – Elkins: east end of US 250 overlap: Grafton: WV 310 north – Valley Falls State Park: US 119: Preston WV 92 north ...
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
B&O Martinsburg West Roundhouse, the oldest covered turntable in the U.S., included in Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Martinsburg Shops, Martinsburg, WV, NRHP-listed; Norfolk and Western Railroad Williamson Roundhouse, a 21-stall roundhouse, Williamson, West Virginia, owned by Norfolk Southern Railway and used as a car shop [11]
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.
West Union, incorporated July 20, 1881, is a town and the county seat of Doddridge County, West Virginia, United States. [5] The population was 669 at the 2020 census. [2] The town is located along Middle Island Creek at the junction of U.S. Route 50 and West Virginia Route 18; the North Bend Rail Trail also passes through the town. [6]