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Virginia's pre-war debt became a major political issue and allocation of a fair portion became a source of conflict with the new state of West Virginia, which was broken off in 1863. Prior to 1861, the State had purchased a total of $48,000,000 worth of stock in transportation improvements, many of which were heavily damaged or destroyed during ...
The Kingwood Tunnel, near Tunnelton, West Virginia, was built between 1849 and 1852 by the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad on its main line between Baltimore, Maryland and Wheeling, West Virginia, under the supervision of B&O chief engineer Benjamin Henry Latrobe, II.
The idea for the railroad came in 1888, after a trip to the summit by inventor Zalmon G. Simmons, who had founded previously the Simmons Bedding Company.Simmons had designed a wooden telegraph insulator while on the board of directors of Western Union, and was surveying Englemann Canyon for telegraph lines to the top of Pikes Peak. [1]
The Appalachian and Ohio Railroad (reporting mark AO) is a class III railroad operating in West Virginia. Originally the Cowen and Pickens Subdivisions of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad , the railroad was a part of CSX until it was leased to Watco , which began operating the railroad on March 25, 2005. [ 1 ]
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad: West Virginia Short Line Railroad: B&O: 1895 1912 Baltimore and Ohio Railroad: West Virginia South Western Railroad: N&W: 1902 1909 Norfolk and Western Railway: West Virginia and Southern Railroad: 1897 N/A WV Southern Railway: WVSR 2003 2005 R.J. Corman Railroad/West Virginia Line: West Virginia Southern Railway ...
Cog steam 0-4-2T 1901 by BLW On display at The Broadmoor, Colorado Springs, CO First engine built with an automatic brake. Displayed at the Cog Railway Depot in Manitou for many years before being moved to the Broadmoor Hotel and put on display. CO-70 No. 8 Cog diesel electric 1939 by GE: Sold to the Garden of the Gods, Colorado Springs, CO
Cleveland and Mahoning Railway: Ohio and West Virginia Railway: C&O: 1878 1881 Columbus, Hocking Valley and Toledo Railway: Painesville, Canton and Bridgeport Narrow Gauge Railroad: W&LE: 1875 1880 Chagrin Falls and Southern Railroad: Painesville and Hudson Railroad: B&O: 1852 1870 Painesville and Youngstown Railroad: Painesville, Wooster and ...
By the fall of 1900, new track connected the West Virginia and Kentucky segments of the line, and the combined properties became known as the Camden Interstate Railway Company. In 1908, the company changed its name back to the Ohio Valley Electric Railway. Street railway operations ceased in 1937.