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2. List of West Virginia railroads - Wikipedia

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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 ...

3. Patterson Creek Cutoff - Wikipedia

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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.

4. Abandoned railway - Wikipedia

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   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.

5. List of rail trails in West Virginia - Wikipedia

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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 ...

6. List of unused railways - Wikipedia

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   Memphis, Dallas and Gulf Railroad (formerly Memphis, Paris and Gulf Railroad) - under the latter name graded 2 miles of line near Little Rock 1907, [325] but then re-organised and consolidated several lumber railroads in 1910 with the intention of forming a bridge route by building from Memphis to Murfreesboro and from the Chicago, Rock Island ...

7. Category:Defunct West Virginia railroads - Wikipedia

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   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

8. B & O Railroad Potomac River Crossing - Wikipedia

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   This was complemented in 1930–1931 with a deck plate girder bridge that carried the B&O Main Line (now the CSX Cumberland Subdivision) to Martinsburg, West Virginia. A rail tunnel, known as the Harpers Ferry Tunnel, was built at the same time as the 1894 bridge to carry the Valley Line through the Maryland Heights , eliminating a sharp curve.

9. Elk River Railroad - Wikipedia

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   By 2022, the railroad had abandoned all trackage south of the rail yard in Gassaway, West Virginia. There were two different rail lines in this section of track, the ex-B&O Elk Subdivision, from Gassaway to Hartland, which was ripped up in December 2020, and the 18.6mi section of the former Buffalo Creek and Gauley Railroad , which was sold to ...