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West Virginia Railroads
The following railroads operate in the U.S. state of West Virginia. Common freight carriers * Appalachian and Ohio Railroad (AO) *Beech Mountain Railroad (BEEM) *CSX Transportation (CSXT) * Durbin and Greenbrier Valley Railroad (DGVR) operates Durbin Railroad and West Virginia Central Railroad (WVC) * Elk River Railroad (ELKR) * Kanawha River Railroad (KNWA) *Norfolk Southern Railway (NS) *R.J. Corman Railroad/West Virginia Line (RJCV) *South Branch Valley Railroad (SBVR) * Wheeling and Lake Erie Railway (WE) *Winchester and Western Railroad (WW) Private freight carriers *Belpre Industrial Parkersburg Railroad (BIP) *Kanawha River Terminal Railroad (KRT) *Little Kanawha River Rail, Inc. (LKRR) *Short Line Services operates Big Eagle Rail, LLC, lessor of Kanawha Rail Corporation Passenger carriers *Amtrak (AMTK) * Cass Scenic Railroad * Durbin and Greenbrier Valley Railroad * MARC * Potomac Eagle Scenic Railroad *South Branch Valley Railroad Defunct railroads ;Electric * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Railroad
Rail transport (also known as train transport) is a means of transport using wheeled vehicles running in railway track, tracks, which usually consist of two parallel steel railway track, rails. Rail transport is one of the two primary means of land transport, next to road transport. It is used for about 8% of passenger and rail freight transport, freight transport globally, thanks to its Energy efficiency in transport, energy efficiency and potentially high-speed rail, high speed.Rolling stock on rails generally encounters lower friction, frictional resistance than rubber-tyred road vehicles, allowing rail cars to be coupled into longer trains. Power is usually provided by Diesel locomotive, diesel or Electric locomotive, electric locomotives. While railway transport is capital intensity, capital-intensive and less flexible than road transport, it can carry heavy loads of passengers and cargo with greater energy efficiency and safety. Precursors of railways driven by human or an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Reporting Mark
A reporting mark is a code used to identify owners or lessees of rolling stock and other equipment used on certain rail transport networks. The code typically reflects the name or identifying number of the owner, lessee, or operator of the equipment, similar to IATA airline designators. In North America, the mark, which consists of an alphabetic code of two to four letters, is stenciled on each piece of equipment, along with a one- to six-digit number. This information is used to uniquely identify every such rail car or locomotive, thus allowing it to be tracked by the railroad it is traveling over, which shares the information with other railroads and customers. In multinational registries, a code indicating the home country may also be included. Standard practices North America The Association of American Railroads (AAR) assigns marks to all carriers, under authority granted by the Surface Transportation Board, U.S. Surface Transportation Board, Canadian Transportation Age ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Western Maryland Railway
The Western Maryland Railway was a small American Class I railroad (1852–1983) that operated in 3 Southern United States, Southern US States, Maryland (Western Maryland, Western Region), West Virginia (Potomac Highlands of West Virginia, Eastern Region), and Pennsylvania (Southern Region) in the Allegheny Mountains, Allegheny Regions of the Appalachian Mountains. It was primarily a coal hauling and freight train, freight railroad, with a small passenger train operation until 1958 when the WM discontinued all of its passenger service. The railroad was headquartered in Baltimore, Maryland. The WM became a property of the Chessie System holding company in 1973, although it continued independent operations until May 1975 after which many of its lines were abandoned in favor of parallel Baltimore and Ohio Railroad (B&O) lines. In 1983, it was fully merged into the B&O, which later was also merged with the former Chesapeake and Ohio Railway into the Chessie System in 1987, which th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Belington And Beaver Creek Railroad
Belington is a town in Barbour County, West Virginia, United States, situated along the Tygart Valley River. The population was 1,804 as of the 2020 census. History Belington was founded in 1766–70. Originally it was known as the Barker Settlement, after Elias Barker, who had settled there with his brother William Barker. About 1785, it was called Yeagers, taking its name from a settler, George Yeager, and his sons. In 1855, it took its current name, Belington, from John Bealin, who had opened up a store there, and who would later move to Kansas. After the June 3, 1861 Battle of Philippi, the Confederate forces, having been routed by the Union Army in Philippi, retreated south. The Confederates made camp near the Laurel Mountain Road, today, a winding single lane dirt road that crosses the mountain and connects Belington with Elkins. A bridge spanning the Tygart Valley River at Belington was built in 1886. In 1891, the West Virginia Central and Pittsburg Railway (later the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chesapeake And Ohio Railway
The Chesapeake and Ohio Railway was a Class I railroad formed in 1869 in Virginia from several smaller Virginia railroads begun in the 19th century. Led by industrialist Collis Potter Huntington, it reached from Virginia's capital city of Richmond to the Ohio River by 1873, where the railroad town (and later city) of Huntington, West Virginia, was named for him. History 19th century The C&O traces its origins to the Louisa Railroad of Louisa County, Virginia, begun in 1836. By 1850, the Louisa was built east to Richmond and west to Charlottesville, and in keeping with its new and larger vision, was renamed the Virginia Central Railroad. The Commonwealth of Virginia owned a portion of Virginia Central stock and financed the Blue Ridge Railroad to accomplish the task of crossing the first mountain barrier to the west. During the American Civil War, the Virginia Central played a key role in several battles but was a target for Federal armies. By 1865, it only had five mile ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Baltimore And Ohio Railroad
The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad was the oldest railroads in North America, oldest railroad in the United States and the first steam engine, steam-operated common carrier. Construction of the line began in 1828, and it operated as B&O from 1830 until 1987, when it was merged into the Chessie System. Its lines are today controlled by CSX Transportation. Founded to serve merchants from Baltimore who wanted to do business with settlers crossing the Appalachian Mountains, the railroad competed with several existing and proposed Central Avenue (Albany, New York), turnpikes and canals, including the Erie Canal, Erie and Chesapeake and Ohio Canal. The railroad began operation in 1830 on a 13-mile line between Baltimore and Ellicott City, Maryland, Elliot's Mill in Maryland. Horse-drawn cars were replaced by steam locomotives the following year. Over the following decades, construction continued westward. During the American Civil War, the railroad sustained much damage but proved cru ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ohio Central Railroad (1879–1885)
Ohio Central Railroad may refer to: * Ohio Central Railroad System, acquired by Genesee and Wyoming in 2008 ** Ohio Central Railroad (1988), one part of the system, operating a former Wheeling and Lake Erie Railway line between Warwick and Zanesville * Ohio Central Railroad (1879–1885), predecessor of the New York Central Railroad * Central Ohio Railroad (1847–1915), predecessor of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad {{dab ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Atlantic And Northwestern Railroad
The Atlantic and Northwestern Railroad was a railroad that served the Upstate region in the period after Reconstruction Reconstruction may refer to: Politics, history, and sociology *Reconstruction (law), the transfer of a company's (or several companies') business to a new company *''Perestroika'' (Russian for "reconstruction"), a late 20th century Soviet Union .... The Atlantic and Northwestern was formed when the Union, Gaffney City and Rutherfordton Railroad, chartered by the South Carolina General Assembly in 1878, changed its name to the Atlantic and Northwestern in 1885. In 1887, the Atlantic and Northwestern Railroad merged with the Augusta, Edgefield and Newberry Railroad to create the Georgia and Carolina Midland Railroad. Wikipedia, WikiProject Trains, ICC valuations, Southern Railway, Carolina Division References Defunct South Carolina railroads Predecessors of the Southern Railway (U.S.) Railway companies established in 1885 Railway companies disestabl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kanawha And West Virginia Railroad
Kanawha may refer to: Places * Kanawha River in West Virginia, joining the Ohio River at Point Pleasant ** Kanawha Falls, a waterfall on the Kanawha River ** Kanawha Falls, West Virginia, an unincorporated community in Fayette County near the waterfall ** Kanawha River Valley AVA, West Virginia wine region * Little Kanawha River in West Virginia, joining the Ohio River at Parkersburg ** Kanawha, West Virginia, an unincorporated community in Wood County near Parkersburg * Kanawha County, West Virginia ** Kanawha County textbook controversy, a violent school control struggle beginning in 1974 * State of Kanawha, an early name for the state of West Virginia * Kanawha Canal, part of the James River and Kanawha Canal, a partially built canal in Richmond, VA * Kanawha (Luray, Virginia), a historic house * Kanawha, Iowa, city Railroad * Kanawha, a type 2-8-4 railroad steam locomotive Ships * ''Kanawha'' (1899), a steam yacht owned by Henry H. Rogers * USS ''Kanawha'' or USNS '' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
New York Central Railroad
The New York Central Railroad was a railroad primarily operating in the Great Lakes region, Great Lakes and Mid-Atlantic (United States), Mid-Atlantic regions of the United States. The railroad primarily connected New York metropolitan area, greater New York and Boston in the east with Chicago and St. Louis in the Midwest, along with the intermediate cities of Albany, New York, Albany, Buffalo, New York, Buffalo, Cleveland, Cincinnati, Detroit, Rochester, New York, Rochester and Syracuse, New York, Syracuse. The New York Central was headquartered in the New York Central Building, adjacent to its largest station, Grand Central Terminal. The railroad was established in 1853, consolidating several existing railroad companies. In 1968, the NYC merged with its former rival, the Pennsylvania Railroad, to form Penn Central. Penn Central went into bankruptcy in 1970 and, with extensive Federal government support, emerged as Conrail in 1976. In 1999, Conrail was broken up, and portions o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Allegheny And Western Railway
Allegheny, Alleghany or Allegany may refer to: Places Geologic and geographic features * Allegheny River, in Pennsylvania and New York * Allegheny Mountains, part of the Appalachian Mountain Range in West Virginia, Pennsylvania, Maryland and Virginia ** Allegheny Mountain (Pennsylvania), major mountain ridge in the northern part of the Allegheny Mountains ** Little Allegheny Mountain, in Pennsylvania and Maryland; see list of mountains of the Alleghenies ** Allegheny Mountain (West Virginia–Virginia), major mountain ridge in the southern part of the Allegheny Mountains **Back Allegheny Mountain, in West Virginia * Allegheny Plateau, which terminates in the east at the Allegheny Mountains * Allegheny Front, the escarpment delineating the eastern edge of the Allegheny Plateau * Allegheny Formation, a mapped bedrock unit of West Virginia, Maryland and Pennsylvania Counties *Allegany County, Maryland *Allegany County, New York *Alleghany County, North Carolina *Alleghany County, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alexander And Rich Mountain Railway
The Alexander and Rich Mountain Railway was a railway in West Virginia West Virginia is a mountainous U.S. state, state in the Southern United States, Southern and Mid-Atlantic (United States), Mid-Atlantic regions of the United States.The United States Census Bureau, Census Bureau and the Association of American .... History The Alexander and Rich Mountain Railroad was sold by receivers November 27, 1899, and new company was formed December 29, 1899 as the Alexander and Rich Mountain Railway. The track was from Alexander, WV, to Switchback, WV 16 miles, Star to Right Fork 5 miles, and Morgan to Phillips Run, WV, 1 mile. In 1901 the branch from Morgan to Phillips Run was abandoned. In 1903 H.T. Wilson was appointed receiver for the company and the Randolph Lumber and Coal Company with the court appointing F. T. Reese later that year. In 1905 the railroad was long, operated for freight only with connection to Baltimore and Ohio Railroad at Alexander, WV. C.H. Williams w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
