Ohio River Railroad-Wheeling To Kenova Part I - WVNC Rails
WEBAt the western terminus of Kenova, the Ohio River line connected with both the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway (C&O) and the Norfolk and Western Railway (N&W). Today, the direct N&W connection is gone and the Ohio River line connects with the C&O (both now CSX) at Guyandotte east of Huntington.
Appalachian Traction: The Forgotten History of Interurban …
WEBNov 10, 2020 · The Wheeling and Elm Grove Railway was formed in 1873 to connect the growing city with the latter coal mining town. The line initially opened using horses and only ran as far as Wheeling Park, 5 miles east of the city.
West Virginia's Interurbans, Once Totaling 260 Miles - American-Rails.com
WEBSep 10, 2024 · The Wheeling Traction Company provided interurban operations to the one-time major commercial hub of Wheeling, West Virginia. It was renamed a number of times during operations (Wheeling Street Railway, Wheeling Public Service Company and Panhandle Traction Company) lasting until the 1940s as a wholly-employee owned interurban known as the ...
Wheeling Terminal Railway - Abandoned
WEBThe Wheeling Terminal Railway (WT) is a former 9½ mile railroad between Martins Ferry, Ohio and Wheeling, West Virginia.
Wheeling Traction Co. 639 - Seashore Trolley Museum
WEBWheeling Traction, a subsidiary of West Penn Railways, operated a streetcar and interurban system serving the Wheeling, WV area, including Bridgeport and Martins Ferry which were in Ohio, across the Ohio River from Wheeling.
A Collection of Railroad Stations: Wheeling West Virginia - Blogger
WEBOct 29, 2008 · The Wheeling Terminal was the busiest train "terminal" in West Virginia when measured in terms of the number of trains that either started, ended, or stopped en route. Further, it had more trains starting or ending than …
West Penn Railways - Wikipedia
WEBWest Penn Railways, one part of the West Penn System, was an interurban electric railway headquartered in Connellsville, Pennsylvania. It was part of the region's power generation utility.
The National Road / The Interurban Electric Railway
WEBJan 17, 2009 · The electrically powered interurban was favored over steam railroads for short distance passenger travel and the transport of local freight. Incorporated in 1899, the Columbus, Buckeye Lake, and Newark Traction Railway served Bexley from a terminal on Gay Street in downtown Columbus.
e-WV | Streetcar Lines - wvencyclopedia.org
WEBWest Virginia streetcar and interurban lines provided cheap, frequent, and sometimes speedy transport for several decades from the early 1900s until the Depression of the 1930s. The Wheeling, Clarksburg-Fairmont, Parkersburg, and Bluefield-Princeton lines served their communities beyond the mid-1940s, and many West Virginians alive in …
RAILROADS | Encyclopedia of Cleveland History | Case Western …
WEBReorganization in late 1895 as the Cleveland Terminal & Valley Railroad brought new vitality. Like the Cleveland, Lorain and & Wheeling, the CT&V entered the orbit of the B&O. Another second-wave road was the narrow gauge Cleveland, Canton & Southern, also a …