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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.
Tunnelton, Kingwood and Fairchance Railroad: 1888 1899 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 1912 Monongahela River Railroad: Virginian Railway: VGN N&W: 1907 1959 Norfolk and Western Railway: Virginian and Western ...
Virginia–Carolina Railway: Virginia Central Railroad: C&O: 1850 1868 Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad: Virginia Central Railway: VC 1926 1983 N/A Virginia and Kentucky Railroad: SOU: 1852 1876 Bristol Coal and Iron Narrow-Gauge Railroad: Virginia and Kentucky Railway: 1902 1916 Norton and Northern Railway: Virginia and Maryland Railroad: VAMD ...
Norfolk and Western magazine ad with system map, 1948. The Norfolk and Western Railway ( reporting mark NW ), [ 1] commonly called the N&W, was a US class I railroad, formed by more than 200 railroad mergers between 1838 and 1982. It was headquartered in Roanoke, Virginia, for most of its existence.
Norfolk and Western 611, also known as the "Spirit of Roanoke" and the "Queen of Steam", is the only surviving example of Norfolk and Western's (N&W) class J 4-8-4 type "Northern" streamlined steam locomotives. Built in May 1950 at N&W's Roanoke (East End) Shops in Roanoke, Virginia, it was one of the last mainline passenger steam locomotives ...
List of Norfolk Southern Railway lines. The Norfolk Southern Railway owns and operates A vast network of rail lines in the United States east of the Mississippi River. In addition to lines inherited from predecessor railroads, Norfolk and Western, and the Southern Railway, it acquired many lines as part of the split of the Conrail system in 1999.
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.
The North Western Virginia Railroadwas chartered by the Virginia General Assemblyas the Northwestern Virginia Railroad on February 14, 1851, in order to build track from Grafton, West Virginiato Parkersburg, West Virginia.[1] Future statehood advocate and U.S. Senator Peter G. Van Winkleof Parkersburg began as the Northwestern Railroad's ...