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The cutoff route ran from McKenzie, Maryland to Patterson Creek, West Virginia, providing a bypass of the B&O rail yard in Cumberland for coal trains moving between Keyser, West Virginia and Brunswick, Maryland. The B&O opened the double track line in 1904, and it included a tunnel and a bridge, both of which are still in existence.
White Oak Rail Trail: an asphalt trail along a 7.5-mile-long (12.1 km) abandoned Norfolk Southern Railway corridor that travels through Oak Hill, West Virginia, beginning near a church along West Virginia Route 612 on the south and ending at Summerlee Road on the north end, with a spur beginning near the existing Norfolk Southern Railway along ...
Fairmont, Morgantown and Pittsburg Railroad, West Virginia Railroad: West Virginia Northern Railroad: WVN 1899 1991 N/A Continued as a tourist railroad until 1999 West Virginia and Pittsburg Railroad: B&O: 1890 1912 Baltimore and Ohio Railroad: West Virginia Short Line Railroad: B&O: 1895 1912 Baltimore and Ohio Railroad: West Virginia South ...
Passenger service ended January 8, 1958, [9] and freight service ended in December 1978, [11] with the line being officially abandoned December 29, 1978. [10] The Chesapeake and Ohio donated most of its right-of-way south of Durbin, including the land that became the Greenbrier River Trail, to the State of West Virginia on June 20, 1980. [10]
Initially developed as a state forest in 1926. One of West Virginia's first CCC camps was established here in 1933. The largest of West Virginia's state parks, it contains the 11-acre (4 ha) Watoga Lake. A historic district containing the park's 103 CCC resources is listed on the NRHP. [124] [196] [198] [199] Watters Smith Memorial
The North Bend Rail Trail was built on one of the most distinguished railroad lines in U.S. history. [3] Chartered in 1851, the Northwestern Virginia Railroad built 103 miles from the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad (B&O) mainline at Grafton, West Virginia, to the Ohio River at Parkersburg, West Virginia. The line was sold to the B&O upon ...
WV-37: Board Tree Tunnel (abandoned) 1858 1984 Former Baltimore and Ohio Railroad: Littleton: Wetzel: WV-80: Hempfield Viaduct & Tunnel No. 1 (abandoned) 1974 Former Baltimore and Ohio Railroad: Wheeling Creek: Wheeling: Ohio
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 ...