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The Winchester & Western was initially incorporated on August 16, 1916, for the purpose of tapping the forests of southeastern Hampshire County, West Virginia, and southwestern Frederick County, Virginia, in order to supply railroad ties and timber to the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad. [3] The idea of building such a conduit to tap these resources ...
The New York, Westchester and Boston Railway Company ( NYW&B, also known to its riders as " the Westchester " and colloquially as the " Boston-Westchester "), was an electric commuter railroad in the Bronx and Westchester County, New York from 1912 to 1937. It ran from the southernmost part of the South Bronx, near the Harlem River, to Mount ...
A West Shore Railroad three-car train used third-rail electric power between Syracuse and Utica, N. Y., ca. 1911. The first part of the line was built as the Saratoga and Hudson River Railroad, incorporated April 16, 1864 and opened in spring 1866. After only about a year of independent operation, the line served as a branch of the New York ...
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)
Length. 82 miles (132.0 km) Philadelphia and Columbia Railroad (P&CR) (1834) was one of the earliest commercial railroads in the United States, running 82 miles (132 km) from Philadelphia to Columbia, Pennsylvania, it was built by the Pennsylvania Canal Commission in lieu of a canal from Columbia to Philadelphia; in 1857 it became part of the ...
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The West Chester Railroad operates 90-minute round-trip excursions over 7.7 miles (12.4 km) [1] of former Pennsylvania Railroad track on the West Chester Branch. Trains operate Sundays, June through December. Besides the regular trains, the schedule expands with Saturday rides for a number of special events including Easter, Mother’s Day ...
and 4 ft 9 in ( 1,448 mm) [1] Length. 138 miles (222 km) The Western & Atlantic Railroad of the State of Georgia ( W&A) is a railroad owned by the State of Georgia and currently leased by CSX, which CSX operates in the Southeastern United States from Atlanta, Georgia, to Chattanooga, Tennessee . It was founded on December 21, 1836.