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West Virginia Railroad: B&O: 1886 1897 Morgantown and Kingwood Railroad: West Virginia Central and Pittsburg Railway: WM: 1881 1905 Western Maryland Railroad: West Virginia and Ironton Railroad: N&W: 1888 1890 Norfolk and Western Railroad: West Virginia Midland Railroad: 1905 1924 West Virginia Midland Railway: West Virginia Midland 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) Wheeling Traction Company; Winchester and Potomac Railroad; Winchester and Wardensville Railroad
Delaware Railroad - 1898 did some work on an electric line from Delhi to Andes with a branch to Bovina Center. [136] The company still existed in 1903 -the name was as given, not Delaware Valley Railroad. [137] Dunderberg Spiral Railway - an amusement railroad on Dunderberg Mountain, powered by gravity and abandoned unfinished in 1891. [138]
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.
Railroads have been abandoned in the United States due to historical and economic factors. In the 19th century, the growing industrial regions in the Northeast, the agrarian regions in the South and Midwest, and the expansion of the country westward to the Pacific Ocean all contributed to the explosive growth of railroad companies and their rights-of-way across the entire country.
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 ]
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 ...
The following are approximate tallies of current listings by county. These counts are based on entries in the National Register Information Database as of April 24, 2008 [2] and new weekly listings posted since then on the National Register of Historic Places web site. [3]