The Twin Mountain and Potomac Railroad was built in 1911 to haul fruit from Twin Mountain Orchards to
Keyser. It was a
narrow gauge railroad and the freight was transferred to the
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad was the first common carrier railroad and the oldest railroad in the United States, with its first section opening in 1830. Merchants from Baltimore, which had benefited to some extent from the construction of ...
at Keyser. The
Burlington, West Virginia train station survives and is now used as a branch of the
Mineral County Library.
Transportation in Mineral County, West Virginia
Defunct West Virginia railroads
Narrow gauge railroads in West Virginia
3 ft gauge railways in the United States
Railway companies established in 1911
American companies established in 1911
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