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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.
The Pilatus Railway is the steepest rack railway in the world, with a maximum gradient of 48% and an average gradient of 35%. Functioning of the rack and pinion on the Strub system. A rack railway (also rack-and-pinion railway, cog railway, or cogwheel railway) is a steep grade railway with a toothed rack rail, usually between the running rails.
The idea for the railroad came in 1888, after a trip to the summit by inventor Zalmon G. Simmons, who had founded previously the Simmons Bedding Company.Simmons had designed a wooden telegraph insulator while on the board of directors of Western Union, and was surveying Englemann Canyon for telegraph lines to the top of Pikes Peak. [1]
Norfolk and Western Railway: West Virginia and Southern Railroad: 1897 N/A WV Southern Railway: WVSR 2003 2005 R.J. Corman Railroad/West Virginia Line: West Virginia Southern Railway: 1895 1897 West Virginia and Southern Railroad: Western Maryland Railroad: WM: 1905 1909 Western Maryland Railway: Western Maryland Railway: WM WM 1909 1989 CSX ...
Manitou and Pikes Peak Cog Railway No. 1: Steam 0-4-2 cog 1890 Colorado Railroad Museum, Golden, CO: Originally named "John Hulbert"; rebuilt as a Vauclain compound and numbered #1 in 1893; operated on the Pikes Peak Cog Railway from 1891 into the 1960s. CO-13 Rio Grande Southern No. 20: Steam 4-6-0 "Ten Wheeler" 1899 built
The world’s first mountain-climbing cog railway, New Hampshire's historic Mount Washington Cog Railway uses steam and bio-diesel-powered locomotives to carry passengers to the summit of the ...
A Cumbres and Toltec Scenic Railroad train east of Chama, New Mexico This is a list of heritage railroads in the United States ; there are currently no such railroads in two U.S. states, Mississippi and North Dakota .
Pages in category "Railway stations on the National Register of Historic Places in West Virginia" The following 16 pages are in this category, out of 16 total. This list may not reflect recent changes.