List of West Virginia railroads

Name Mark System[nb 1] From To Successor Notes Alexander and Eastern Railway 1906 N/A Alexander and Rich Mountain Railroad 1892 1899 Alexander and Rich Mountain Railway Alexander and Rich Mountain Railway 1899 1906 Alexander and Eastern Railway Allegheny and Western Railway NYC 1905 1918 Kanawha and West Virginia Railroad Atlantic and Northwestern Railroad NYC 1881 1882 Ohio Central Railroad Baltimore and Ohio Railroad B&O, BO B&O 1827 1987 Chesapeake and Ohio Railway Belington and Beaver Creek Railroad WM 1899 1905 Western Maryland Railroad Belington and Northern Railroad B&O 1900 1941 N/A Benwood and Wheeling Connecting Railway 1900 1960 N/A Berkeley Springs Railroad B&O 1911 1912 Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Berkeley Springs and Potomac Railroad B&O 1880 1910 Berkeley Springs Railroad Big Sandy and Cumberland Railroad BS&C N&W 1900 1932 Norfolk and Western Railway Big Sandy, East Lynn and Guyan Railroad N&W 1902 1908 Norfolk and Western Railway Big Stony Railway N&W 1910 1915 Norfolk and Western Railway Black Fork Railroad 1912 1913 Central West Virginia and Southern Railroad Blacksville and Western Railway MGA 1917 1917 Morgantown and Wheeling Railway Blackwater and Potomac Railroad 1915 1922 N/A Blue Stone Railroad N&W 1881 1881 New River Railroad of West Virginia Buckhannon and Northern Railroad MGA 1902 1915 Monongahela Railway Buckhannon River Railroad B&O 1889 1890 West Virginia and Pittsburg Railroad Buckhannon River Lumber Company B&O 1885 1889 Clarksburg, Weston and Midland Railroad Buckhannon and West Fork Railroad B&O 1882 1890 Clarksburg, Weston and Midland Railroad Buffalo Creek and Gauley Railroad 1904 1965 Elk River Railroad Cairo and Kanawha Railway 1906 N/A Cairo and Kanawha Valley Railroad 1890 1906 Cairo and Kanawha Railway Campbell’s Creek Railroad CCK 1901 1962 N/A Caretta Railway N&W 1906 1909 Norfolk and Western Railway Central Railway of West Virginia B&O 1898 1902 Morgantown and Kingwood Railroad Central West Virginia and Southern Railroad 1913 1936 N/A Chaffee Railroad WM 1918 1950 Western Maryland Railway Charleston, Clendenin and Sutton Railroad B&O 1891 1903 Coal and Coke Railway Charleston and Gauley Railway NYC 1887 1890 Kanawha and Michigan Railway Cheat Haven and Bruceton Railroad B&O 1911 1965 N/A Cheat River and Pittsburg Railroad B&O 1902 Morgantown and Kingwood Railroad Cheat Valley Railroad B&O 1897 1904 Morgantown and Kingwood Railroad Chemical and Helvetia Railroad 1909 N/A Cherry Run and Potomac Valley Railroad B&O 1892 1912 Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad C&O 1868 1878 Chesapeake and Ohio Railway Chesapeake and Ohio Railway C&O, CO C&O 1878 1987 CSX Transportation Clarksburg, Weston and Glenville Railroad and Transportation Company B&O 1878 1889 Clarksburg, Weston and Midland Railroad Clarksburg, Weston and Midland Railroad B&O 1890 1890 West Virginia and Pittsburg Railroad Clendenin and Spencer Railroad 1904 Kanawha and Northern Railway Coal and Coke Railway C&C B&O 1902 1933 Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Coal and Iron Railway WM 1899 1905 Western Maryland Railroad Coal River Railway C&O 1905 1909 Chesapeake and Ohio Railway Coal River and Western Railway C&O 1903 1905 Coal River Railway Consolidated Rail Corporation CR 1976 1999 Norfolk Southern Railway Covington and Ohio Railroad C&O 1853 1868 Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad Croft Railroad 1910 N/A Cross Creek Railroad P&WV 1900 1904 Wabash Pittsburgh Terminal Railway Cumberland and Pennsylvania Railroad C&PA, CPA WM 1863 1953 Western Maryland Railway Cumberland Valley Railroad PRR 1873 1919 N/A Leased the Cumberland Valley and Martinsburg Railroad Cumberland Valley and Martinsburg Railroad PRR 1888 1958 Penndel Company Deepwater Railway N&W 1898 1907 Virginian Railway Dry Fork Railroad 1892 1913 Central West Virginia and Southern Railroad Elk and Little Kanawha Railroad 1909 1919 N/A Elm Grove and State Line Railroad PRR 1883 1884 Wheeling and Harrisburg Railway Erbacon and Summersville Railroad 1911 N/A Everson and Adamsville Railroad B&O 1902 1903 Monongahela River Railroad Fairmont Bingamon Railway WM 1916 1950 Western Maryland Railway Fairmont Helen’s Run Railway WM 1915 1950 Western Maryland Railway Fairmont, Morgantown and Pittsburg Railroad B&O 1883 1989 CSX Transportation Fairmont, Shinnston and Clarksburg Railway B&O 1884 1912 Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Gaston Gas Coal Company B&O 1883 1889 Monongahela River Railroad Gauley and Eastern Railway NYC 1889 1920 Kanawha and West Virginia Railroad Gauley and Meadow River Railroad C&O 1912 1918 Chesapeake and Ohio Railway Gauley River Railroad GRIV 1998 1999 N/A Never operated Glade Creek and Raleigh Railroad C&O 1891 1906 Raleigh and Southwestern Railway Glady and Alpena Railroad 1901 1922 N/A Glen Jean, Lower Loup and Deepwater Railroad C&O 1895 1901 Chesapeake and Ohio Railway Grafton and Belington Railroad B&O 1892 1912 Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Grafton and Greenbrier Railroad B&O 1881 1892 Grafton and Belington Railroad Greenbrier Railway C&O 1897 1903 Chesapeake and Ohio Railway Greenbrier, Cheat and Elk Railroad WM 1910 1927 Western Maryland Railway Greenbrier and Eastern Railroad C&O/ NYC 1919 1931 Nicholas, Fayette and Greenbrier Railroad Greenbrier and New River Railroad C&O 1881 1901 Chesapeake and Ohio Railway Guyan, Big Ugly and Coal River Railway 1907 1921 N/A Guyandotte Valley Railroad Company C&O 1899 1903 Chesapeake and Ohio Railway Guyandotte and Ohio River Railroad and Mineral Company NYC 1872 1881 Atlantic and Northwestern Railroad Hampshire Southern Railroad B&O 1906 1911 Moorefield and Virginia Railroad Harrisville and Cornwallis Railroad 1908 1911 Harrisville Southern Railroad Harrisville Southern Railroad 1911 N/A Hartland Railroad 1922 1925 Middle Creek Railroad Hempfield Railroad B&O 1851 1871 Wheeling, Pittsburgh and Baltimore Railroad Holliday’s Cove Railroad PRR 1860 1868 Pittsburgh, Cincinnati and St. Louis Railway Holly River Railroad 1896 1899 Holly River and Addison Railway Holly River and Addison Railway 1898 1906 West Virginia Midland Railroad Huntington and Big Sandy Railroad B&O 1890 1912 Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Iaeger and Southern Railway N&W 1898 1906 Norfolk and Western Railway Imboden and Odell Railroad NYC 1903 1905 Kanawha and West Virginia Railroad Indian Creek and Northern Railway MGA 1918 1933 Monongahela Railway Interior and West Virginia Railroad N&W 1906 1910 Big Stony Railway Iron Mountain and Greenbrier Railroad 1912 White Sulphur and Huntersville Railroad Iron Valley and Morgantown Railroad B&O 1881 1883 West Virginia Midland Railway Island Creek Railroad C&O 1902 1933 Chesapeake and Ohio Railway Kanawha Railway C&O 1881 1902 Chesapeake and Ohio Railway Kanawha Bridge and Terminal Company C&O 1907 1918 Chesapeake and Ohio Railway Kanawha Central Railway KC 1906 1977 N/A Kanawha and Coal River Railroad 1881 N/A Kanawha, Glen Jean and Eastern Railroad C&O 1895 1940 Chesapeake and Ohio Railway Kanawha and Michigan Railway K&M NYC 1890 1938 Toledo and Ohio Central Railway Kanawha and Northern Railway 1906 N/A Kanawha and Ohio Railway NYC 1886 1890 Kanawha and Michigan Railway Kanawha and Paint Creek Railroad C&O 1884 1895 Kanawha and Paint Creek Railway Kanawha and Paint Creek Railway C&O 1895 1902 Kanawha and Pocahontas Railroad Kanawha and Pennsylvania Railway NYC 1903 1917 Kanawha and West Virginia Railroad Kanawha and Pocahontas Railroad C&O 1898 1905 Chesapeake and Ohio Railway Kanawha and West Virginia Railroad K&WV NYC 1905 1938 Toledo and Ohio Central Railway Kelly’s Creek Railroad 1916 1964 N/A Kelly’s Creek and Northwestern Railroad KCNW 1903 1993 N/A Kenova and Big Sandy Railroad N&W 1902 1904 Norfolk and Western Railway Kingwood Railway 1882 1888 Tunnelton, Kingwood and Fairchance Railroad Little Kanawha Railroad B&O 1896 1937 N/A Logan and Southern Railway C&O 1907 1918 Chesapeake and Ohio Railway Loop and Lookout Railroad C&O/ NYC 1907 1931 Nicholas, Fayette and Greenbrier Railroad Lorama Railroad 1903 1924 N/A Mann’s Creek Railroad 1886 1955 N/A Marlinton and Camden Railroad 1903 N/A Martinsburg and Potomac Railroad PRR 1868 1888 Cumberland Valley and Martinsburg Railroad Middle Creek Railroad 1925 1951 N/A Monongah and Ohio River Railroad B&O 1895 ca. 1900 Monongahela River Railroad Monongahela Railway MGA MGA 1915 1993 Consolidated Rail Corporation Monongahela River Railroad B&O 1888 1912 Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Moorefield and Virginia Railroad B&O 1910 1912 Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Morgantown and Dunkard Valley Railroad MGA 1905 1913 Morgantown and Wheeling Railway Morgantown and Kingwood Railroad M&K B&O 1899 Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Morgantown and Wheeling Railway M&W MGA 1912 1923 Scotts Run Railway New River Railroad, Mining and Manufacturing Company of West Virginia N&W 1874 1881 New River Railroad of West Virginia New River Railroad of West Virginia N&W 1881 1882 Norfolk and Western Railroad New River Bridge Company C&O 1887 1890 Chesapeake and Ohio Railway New York Central Railroad NYC NYC 1922 1968 Penn Central Transportation Company New York, Chicago and St. Louis Railroad NKP NKP 1949 1964 Norfolk and Western Railway Nicholas, Fayette and Greenbrier Railroad C&O/ NYC 1926 1996 Consolidated Rail Corporation, CSX Transportation Norfolk and Western Railroad N&W 1882 1896 Norfolk and Western Railway Norfolk and Western Railway N&W, NW N&W 1896 1998 Norfolk Southern Railway North Western Virginia Railroad B&O 1851 1865 Parkersburg Branch Railroad Ohio Central Railroad NYC 1882 1885 Kanawha and Ohio Railway Ohio and Little Kanawha Railroad B&O 1900 1910 Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Ohio River Railroad B&O 1882 1912 Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Pan Handle Railroad PRR 1868 1871 Pittsburgh, Wheeling and Kentucky Railroad Pan Handle Railway PRR 1867 1868 Pittsburgh, Cincinnati and St. Louis Railway Panther Railroad 1895 N/A Parkersburg Branch Railroad B&O 1865 1912 Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Patterson’s Creek and Potomac Railroad B&O 1900 1912 Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Paw Paw Railroad B&O 1900 1912 Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Penn Central Transportation Company PC 1968 1976 Consolidated Rail Corporation Penndel Company PRR 1954 1976 Consolidated Rail Corporation Pennsboro and Harrisville Railroad 1873 1879 Pennsboro and Harrisville Ritchie County Railway Pennsboro and Harrisville Ritchie County Railway 1880 1905 Lorama Railroad Pennsylvania Railroad PRR PRR 1920 1968 Penn Central Transportation Company Philadelphia, Baltimore and Washington Railroad PRR 1956 1976 Consolidated Rail Corporation Pickens and Addison Railway 1903 N/A Pickens and Hackers Valley Railroad 1899 1921 N/A Pickens and Webster Springs Railroad 1912 1915 N/A Piedmont and Cumberland Railway WM 1886 1905 Western Maryland Railroad Piney River and Paint Creek Railroad C&O 1905 1918 Chesapeake and Ohio Railway Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, Chicago and St. Louis Railroad PRR 1917 1956 Philadelphia, Baltimore and Washington Railroad Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, Chicago and St. Louis Railway PRR 1890 1917 Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, Chicago and St. Louis Railroad Pittsburgh, Cincinnati and St. Louis Railway PRR 1868 1890 Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, Chicago and St. Louis Railway Pittsburgh Southern Railway B&O 1881 1884 N/A Sold at foreclosure; no property in West Virginia Pittsburg and Steubenville Railroad PRR 1856 1867 Pan Handle Railway Pittsburgh and West Virginia Railroad 1967 Still exists as a lessor of the Wheeling and Lake Erie Railway Pittsburgh and West Virginia Railway P&WV P&WV 1916 1967 Pittsburgh and West Virginia Railroad Pittsburgh, Wheeling and Kentucky Railroad PRR 1871 1917 Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, Chicago and St. Louis Railroad Pocahontas Railroad 1901 N/A Pocahontas, Coal River and Kanawha Railway C&O 1899 1903 Coal River and Western Railway Point Pleasant Bridge Company NYC 1886 1935 Kanawha and Michigan Railway Point Pleasant, Buckhannon and Tygart’s Valley Railroad B&O 1892 1912 Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Point Pleasant and Ohio River Railroad NYC 1881 1885 Kanawha and Michigan Railway, Point Pleasant Bridge Company Pond Fork Railway C&O 1915 1918 Chesapeake and Ohio Railway Pond Fork and Bald Knob Railroad C&O 1919 1933 Chesapeake and Ohio Railway Porters Creek and Gauley Railroad 1896 1904 N/A Potomac and Piedmont Coal and Railroad Company WM 1866 1881 West Virginia Central and Pittsburg Railway Potomac Valley Railroad of West Virginia WM 1890 1905 Western Maryland Railroad Powellton and Pocahontas Railway C&O 1891 1902 Chesapeake and Ohio Railway Preston Railroad 1897 1960 N/A Raleigh and Pocahontas Railroad 1902 N/A Raleigh and Southwestern Railway C&O 1903 1910 Chesapeake and Ohio Railway Ravenswood, Spencer and Glenville Railway B&O 1886 1912 Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Richwood and Gauley Railroad 1911 N/A Richmond, Toledo and Chicago Railroad NYC 1881 1881 Atlantic and Northwestern Railroad Ripley and Mill Creek Valley Railroad B&O 1886 1912 Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Roaring Creek and Belington Railroad B&O 1893 1919 Coal and Coke Railway Roaring Creek and Charleston Railroad B&O 1893 1904 Roaring Creek and Belington Railroad Rowlesburg and Southern Railroad 1911 1950 N/A Scotts Run Railway MGA 1923 1933 Monongahela Railway Sewell Valley Railroad C&O/ NYC 1907 1931 Nicholas, Fayette and Greenbrier Railroad Shenandoah Valley Railroad N&W 1870 1890 Shenandoah Valley Railway Shenandoah Valley Railway N&W 1890 1890 Norfolk and Western Railroad South Branch Railway B&O 1871 1912 Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Strouds Creek and Muddlety Railroad SCM B&O 1904 2000 N/A Most recently subleased to the Gauley River Railroad Tug River and Kentucky Railroad N&W 1913 1936 Norfolk and Western Railway Tunnelton, Kingwood and Fairchance Railroad 1888 1899 West Virginia Northern Railroad Twin Mountain and Potomac Railroad 1911 1919 N/A Valley River Railroad 1907 1931 N/A Virginia–Maryland Coal Corporation B&O 1907 1912 Monongahela River Railroad Virginian Railway VGN N&W 1907 1959 Norfolk and Western Railway Virginian and Western Railway N&W 1922 1936 Virginian Railway Virginian–Wyoming Railway N&W 1919 1922 Virginian and Western Railway Wabash Pittsburgh Terminal Railway WPT P&WV 1904 1916 Pittsburgh and West Virginia Railway Walkersville and Ireland Railroad 1907 1924 Walkersville and Southern Railroad Walkersville and Southern Railroad 1924 1930 N/A Wardensville Railroad 1929 1929 Winchester and Wardensville Railroad Waynesburg Southern Railroad WAS MGA 1966 1976 Consolidated Rail Corporation 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 1924 1931 N/A West Virginia Midland Railway B&O 1883 1886 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 Western Railroad N&W 1902 1909 Norfolk and Western Railway West Virginia and Southern Railroad 1897 N/A WV Southern Railway WVSR 2003 2005 R.J. Corman Railroad/West Virginia Line West Virginia Southern Railway 1895 1897 West Virginia and Southern Railroad Western Maryland Railroad WM 1905 1909 Western Maryland Railway Western Maryland Railway WM WM 1909 1989 CSX Transportation Weston and Buckhannon Railroad B&O 1882 1890 Clarksburg, Weston and Midland Railroad Weston and Centreville Railroad B&O 1882 1882 Weston and Buckhannon Railroad Weston and Elk River Railroad B&O 1889 1889 Clarksburg, Weston and Midland Railroad Weston and West Fork Railroad B&O 1875 1889 Clarksburg, Weston and Midland Railroad Wheeling Bridge and Terminal Railway PRR 1889 1900 Wheeling Terminal Railway Wheeling and Harrisburg Railway PRR 1882 1889 Wheeling Bridge and Terminal Railway Wheeling and Lake Erie Railroad NKP 1899 1916 Wheeling and Lake Erie Railway Wheeling and Lake Erie Railway NKP 1890 1899 Wheeling and Lake Erie Railroad Wheeling and Lake Erie Railway W&LE, WLE NKP 1916 1949 New York, Chicago and St. Louis Railroad Wheeling, Parkersburg and Charleston Railway B&O 1881 1882 Ohio River Railroad Wheeling, Pittsburgh and Baltimore Railroad B&O 1872 Wheeling Terminal Railway PRR 1900 1954 Penndel Company White Oak Railway C&O, N&W 1905 1917 Chesapeake and Ohio Railway, Virginian Railway White Sulphur and Huntersville Railroad 1912 N/A Williamson and Pond Creek Railroad N&W 1912 1936 Norfolk and Western Railway Williamsport, Nessle and Martinsburg Railway WM 1913 1937 Western Maryland Railway Winchester and Potomac Railroad B&O 1831 1988 CSX Transportation Winchester and Wardensville Railroad 1929 1934 N/A Winchester and Western Railroad 1916 1930 Winchester and Wardensville Railroad Winding Gulf Railroad 1906 N/A Winifrede Railroad WNFR 1881 1987 Kanawha Rail Corporation