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The West Virginia Northern Railroad (WVN) was a short line railroad that ran from Kingwood to Tunnelton in Preston County, West Virginia. It operated from 1886 to 1991. It operated from 1886 to 1991.
The railroad of the West Virginia Northern Railroad Company, hereinafter called the carrier, is a single-track standard-gauge steam railroad, located in the State of West Virginia. The owned main line extends northwardly from Tunnelton to Kingwood, W. Va., a distance of 11.067 miles.
Pittsburgh and West Virginia Railroad: 1967 Still exists as a lessor of the Wheeling and Lake Erie Railway: Pittsburgh and West Virginia Railway: P&WV P&WV 1916 1967 Pittsburgh and West Virginia Railroad: Pittsburgh, Wheeling and Kentucky Railroad: PRR: 1871 1917 Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, Chicago and St. Louis Railroad: Pocahontas Railroad: 1901 N/A
Wardensville Railroad; West Penn Railways; West Virginia Central and Pittsburg Railway; West Virginia Midland Railroad; West Virginia Northern Railroad; Western Maryland Railroad; Western Maryland Railway; Wheeling and Lake Erie Railroad (1899–1916) Wheeling and Lake Erie Railway (1886–99) Wheeling and Lake Erie Railway (1916–1988 ...
Both Union and Confederate forces recognized the strategic importance of the Northwestern Virginia Railroad as well as the B&O. As the American Civil War began, CSA General Robert E. Lee initially vowed to protect the railroad, and sent first CSA Major Francis M. Boykin Jr., then CSA Col. George A. Porterfield (a Virginia Military Institute graduate from Charles Town across from Harpers Ferry ...
The Patterson Creek Cutoff is an abandoned railroad line built by the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad (B&O) in northern West Virginia and Western Maryland, that served trains running on the B&O "West End" line in the Cumberland, Maryland area.
"A Macro-scale Look at Railroad History." Railroad History (Fall/Winter 2012), Issue 207, pp 78–89. Riegel, Robert Edgar. The Story of the Western Railroads (1926) online; Saunders, Richard. Main lines: Rebirth of the North American railroads, 1970–2002 (Northern Illinois UP, 2003). Stover, John. History of the Illinois Central Railroad ...
While West Virginia was once crisscrossed with commercial and passenger railroad networks, the decline of the coal and timber industries, coupled with the rise of the automobile, led to a sharp drop in track mileage in the state. Many of the former railroad grades are used as trails for hiking and biking throughout the state's numerous woodlands.