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The Pittsburgh and West Virginia Railway (reporting mark PWV) was a railroad in the Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and Wheeling, West Virginia, areas.Originally built as the Wabash Pittsburgh Terminal Railway, a Pittsburgh extension of George J. Gould's Wabash Railroad, the venture entered receivership in 1908, and the line was cut loose.
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
The West Virginia Central and Pittsburg Railway (WVC&P) was a railroad in West Virginia and Maryland operating in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. It had main lines radiating from Elkins, West Virginia in four principal directions: north to Cumberland, Maryland; west to Belington, WV; south to Huttonsville, WV; and east to Durbin, WV.
The Pittsburgh and Western Railroad (reporting mark PW) was a nineteenth-century, 3 ft (914 mm) narrow gauge railroad connecting Pittsburgh with coal supplies and the oil field around Titusville, Pennsylvania. [1] Its right-of way formed the main line of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad west from Pittsburgh. It was reorganized in 1889 under ...
The Cleveland, Canton & Southern Railroad joined the WLE in 1899 after its purchase at a foreclosure sale, becoming WLE's Cleveland Division. At its height, the WLE ran from the Pittsburgh region (through a connection with the Wabash-Pittsburgh Terminal, later the Pittsburgh and West Virginia Railway) to Lake Erie at Huron and Toledo.
Pittsburgh and Mansfield Railroad: P&WV: 1893 1901 Pittsburgh, Carnegie and Western Railroad: Pittsburgh, Marion and Chicago Railway: PLE/ PRR: 1886 1896 Pittsburgh, Lisbon and Western Railway: Pittsburgh, McKeesport and Youghiogheny Railroad: PLE: 1881 1965 Pittsburgh and Lake Erie Railroad: Pittsburgh and Moon Run Railroad: MTR: 1891 1913 ...
The first 2-6-6-4s built in the United States were for the Pittsburgh and West Virginia Railroad, and these were not high-speed locomotives but rather mountain engines. They received three in 1934 and four more in 1937 and operated the 2-6-6-4s until 1953.
Cork Run Tunnel, Pennsylvania Railroad, Pittsburgh; Craighead Tunnel, Pittsburgh and West Virginia Railway, Avella, Washington County, 2 miles (3.2 km) east of the West Virginia border near Buxton and Stateline Tunnels. Crown Avenue Tunnel, 4,747 feet (1,447 m), Scranton, Lackawanna and Wyoming Valley Railroad (now Electric City Trolley) [13]