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Cass Scenic Railroad State Park is a state park and heritage railroad located in Cass, Pocahontas County, West Virginia.. It consists of the Cass Scenic Railroad, a 11-mile (18 km) long 4 ft 8+1⁄2 in (1,435 mm) standard gauge heritage railway owned by the West Virginia State Rail Authority and operated by the Durbin and Greenbrier Valley Railroad.
The Durbin and Greenbrier Valley Railroad (reporting mark DGVR) is a heritage and freight railroad in the U.S. states of Virginia and West Virginia.It operates the West Virginia State Rail Authority-owned Durbin Railroad and West Virginia Central Railroad (reporting mark WVC), [1] [2] as well as the Shenandoah Valley Railroad in Virginia.
West Virginia Northern Railroad: Twin Mountain and Potomac Railroad: 1911 1919 N/A Valley River Railroad: 1907 1931 N/A Virginia–Maryland Coal Corporation: B&O: 1907
Bald Knob is the highest summit of Back Allegheny Mountain in Pocahontas County, West Virginia and is part of Cass Scenic Railroad State Park.At an altitude of 4,843 feet (1,476 m) above sea level, Bald Knob is the third-highest point in West Virginia and the Allegheny Mountains.
The Mountain Subdivision was opened in 1852 as part of the B&O's main line. [6] In 1904 the B&O built the Patterson Creek Cutoff to alleviate congestion in its Cumberland rail yard. The cutoff line ran from McKenzie, Maryland to Patterson Creek, West Virginia, providing a bypass of the yard for coal trains moving between Keyser and Brunswick ...
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 ...
The South Branch Valley Railroad (reporting mark SBVR) is a 52.4-mile-long (84.3 km) railroad in the Eastern Panhandle of West Virginia.The branch line, which parallels the South Branch Potomac River, runs north from Petersburg to Green Spring, where it connects to the national rail network at a junction with the CSX Cumberland Subdivision.
The railroad began c. 1901 as the Greenbrier and Elk River Railroad, which ran from Cass to Spruce under the ownership of the West Virginia Spruce Lumber Company. In addition to the large lumber mill in Cass, the road also served a pulp mill , built in Spruce, beginning in 1904. [ 2 ]