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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 ...
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 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.
Babcock State Park located along the New River Gorge. There are 37 state parks in the U.S. state of West Virginia as of 2017. [a] The West Virginia Division of Natural Resources (WVDNR) Parks and Recreation Section is the governing body for all 37 state parks and directly operates all but one of them.
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 ...
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
When it was abandoned by the Chessie System in May 1975, the office was not torn down and is one of the few buildings that remain today in Jerome. There was also an operating connection with the B&O "low line" ( see Magnolia, West Virginia ) at milepost 137 but it was later removed when the B&O abandoned the low line in 1961.
The February 2021 issue of Railpace magazine (page 20) stated that the announcement in the Federal Register is misleading and clarified that the West Virginia State Rail Authority did not take over the entire Elk River Railroad, but rather that it acquired the 18 miles of abandoned and flood-damaged track of the former Buffalo Creek and Gauley ...