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Cass Scenic Railroad State Park is a state park and heritage railroad located in Cass, Pocahontas County, West Virginia. It consists of the Cass Scenic Railroad, a 11-mile (18 km) long 4 ft 8+1⁄2 in (1,435 mm) standard gauge heritage railway owned by the West Virginia State Rail Authority and operated by the Durbin and Greenbrier Valley Railroad.
Glade Creek Trail: located in the New River Gorge along Glade Creek, this 5.6-mile-long (9.0 km) trail follows an old rail bed; Glen Dale to Moundsville Rail Trail: a 3.1-mile (5.0 km) rail trail; Greenbrier River Trail: a 77-mile (124 km) rail trail that goes through pristine eastern West Virginia
The Durbin and Greenbrier Valley Railroad (reporting mark DGVR) is a heritage and freight railroad in the U.S. states of Virginia and West Virginia.It operates the West Virginia State Rail Authority-owned Durbin Railroad and West Virginia Central Railroad (reporting mark WVC), [1] [2] as well as the Shenandoah Valley Railroad in Virginia.
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Tenmile Creek is a tributary of the West Fork River, 26.4 miles (42.5 km) long, [3] in north-central West Virginia in the United States.Via the West Fork, Monongahela and Ohio Rivers, it is part of the watershed of the Mississippi River, draining an area of 126 square miles (330 km 2) [4] on the unglaciated portion of the Allegheny Plateau.
President Jimmy Carter signed legislation establishing New River Gorge National River on November 10, 1978 (Pub. L. 95–625).As stated in the legislation, the park was established as a unit of the national park system "for the purpose of conserving and interpreting outstanding natural, scenic, and historic values and objects in and around the New River Gorge, and preserving as a free-flowing ...
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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 ]