List of West Virginia Railroads

Railroad Name Start Date End Date
Alexander and Eastern Railway 1906 Unknown
Alexander and Rich Mountain Railroad 1892 1899
Alexander and Rich Mountain Railway 1899 1906
Allegheny and Western Railway 1896 1918
Atlantic and Northwestern Railroad 1881 1887
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad 1827 1987
Belington and Beaver Creek Railroad 1899 1905
Belington and Northern Railroad 1900 1941
Benwood and Wheeling Connecting Railway 1900 1960
Berkeley Springs Railroad 1911 1912
Berkeley Springs and Potomac Railroad 1880 1910
Big Sandy and Cumberland Railroad 1900 1932
Big Sandy, East Lynn and Guyan Railroad 1902 1908
Big Stony Railway 1892 1915
Black Fork Railroad 1912 1913
Blacksville and Western Railway 1917 1917
Blue Stone Railroad 1881 1881
Buckhannon River Lumber Company 1885 1889
Buckhannon River Railroad 1889 1890
Buckhannon and Northern Railroad 1902 1915
Buckhannon and West Fork Railroad 1882 1890
Buffalo Creek and Gauley Railroad 1904 1965
Cairo and Kanawha Railway 1906 Unknown
Cairo and Kanawha Valley Railroad 1890 1906
Campbell's Creek Railroad 1901 1962
Caretta Railway 1906 1909
Central Railway of West Virginia 1898 1902
Central West Virginia and Southern Railroad 1913 1936
Chaffee Railroad 1918 1950
Charleston and Gauley Railway 1887 1890
Charleston, Clendenin and Sutton Railroad 1891 1903
Cheat Haven and Bruceton Railroad 1911 1965
Cheat River and Pittsburg Railroad Unknown 1902
Cheat Valley Railroad 1897 1904
Chemical and Helvetia Railroad 1909 Unknown
Cherry Run and Potomac Valley Railroad 1892 1912
Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad 1868 1878
Chesapeake and Ohio Railway 1878 1987
Clarksburg, Weston and Glenville Railroad and Transportation Company 1878 1889
Clarksburg, Weston and Midland Railroad 1890 1890
Clendenin and Spencer Railroad Unknown 1904
Coal River Railway 1905 1909
Coal River and Western Railway 1903 1905
Coal and Coke Railway 1902 1933
Coal and Iron Railway 1899 1905
Covington and Ohio Railroad 1853 1868
Croft Railroad 1910 Unknown
Cross Creek Railroad 1900 1904
Cumberland Valley Railroad 1831 1919
Cumberland Valley and Martinsburg Railroad 1888 1958
Cumberland and Pennsylvania Railroad 1850 1953
Deepwater Railway 1898 1907
Dry Fork Railroad 1892 1913
Elk and Little Kanawha Railroad 1909 1919
Elm Grove and State Line Railroad 1883 1884
Erbacon and Summersville Railroad 1911 Unknown
Everson and Adamsville Railroad 1902 1903
Fairmont Bingamon Railway 1916 1950
Fairmont Helen's Run Railway 1915 1950
Fairmont, Morgantown and Pittsburg Railroad 1883 1989
Fairmont, Shinnston and Clarksburg Railway 1884 1912
Gaston Gas Coal Company 1883 1889
Gauley and Eastern Railway 1889 1920
Gauley and Meadow River Railroad 1912 1918
Glade Creek and Raleigh Railroad 1891 1906
Glady and Alpena Railroad 1901 1922
Glen Jean, Lower Loup and Deepwater Railroad 1895 1901
Grafton and Belington Railroad 1892 1912
Grafton and Greenbrier Railroad 1881 1892
Greenbrier Railway 1897 1903
Greenbrier and Eastern Railroad 1919 1931
Greenbrier and New River Railroad 1881 1901
Greenbrier, Cheat and Elk Railroad 1910 1927
Guyan, Big Ugly and Coal River Railway 1907 1921
Guyandot Valley Railway 1899 1903
Guyandotte and Ohio River Railroad and Mineral Company 1872 1881
Hampshire Southern Railroad 1906 1911
Harrisville Southern Railroad 1911 Unknown
Harrisville and Cornwallis Railroad 1908 1911
Hempfield Railroad 1850 1871
Holliday's Cove Railroad 1860 1868
Holly River Railroad 1896 1899
Holly River and Addison Railway 1898 1906
Huntington and Big Sandy Railroad 1890 1912
Iaeger and Southern Railway 1898 1906
Imboden and Odell Railroad 1903 1905
Indian Creek and Northern Railway 1918 1933
Interior and West Virginia Railroad 1906 1910
Iron Mountain and Greenbrier Railroad Unknown 1912
Iron Valley and Morgantown Railroad 1881 1883
Island Creek Railroad 1902 1933
Kanawha Bridge and Terminal Company 1907 1918
Kanawha Central Railway 1906 1977
Kanawha Railway 1881 1902
Kanawha and Coal River Railroad 1881 Unknown
Kanawha and Michigan Railway 1890 1938
Kanawha and Northern Railway Unknown 1906
Kanawha and Ohio Railway 1886 1890
Kanawha and Paint Creek Railroad 1884 1895
Kanawha and Paint Creek Railway 1895 1902
Kanawha and Pennsylvania Railway 1903 1917
Kanawha and Pocahontas Railroad 1898 1905
Kanawha and West Virginia Railroad 1905 1938
Kanawha, Glen Jean and Eastern Railroad 1895 1940
Kelly's Creek Railroad 1916 1964
Kelly's Creek and Northwestern Railroad 1903 1993
Kenova and Big Sandy Railroad 1902 1904
Kingwood Railway 1882 1888
Little Kanawha Railroad 1896 1937
Logan and Southern Railway 1907 1918
Loop and Lookout Railroad 1907 1931
Lorama Railroad 1903 1924
Mann's Creek Railroad 1912 1955
Marlinton and Camden Railroad 1903 Unknown
Martinsburg and Potomac Railroad 1868 1890
Monongah and Ohio River Railroad 1895 1900
Monongahela Railway 1915 1993
Monongahela River Railroad 1888 1912
Moorefield and Virginia Railroad 1910 1912
Morgantown and Dunkard Valley Railroad 1905 1913
Morgantown and Kingwood Railroad 1899 Unknown
Morgantown and Wheeling Railway 1912 1923
New River Bridge Company 1887 1890
New River Railroad of West Virginia 1881 1882
New River Railroad, Mining and Manufacturing Company of West Virginia 1874 1881
Norfolk and Western Railroad 1881 1896
Norfolk and Western Railway 1896 1998
North Western Virginia Railroad 1851 1865
Ohio Central Railroad 1879 1885
Ohio River Railroad 1882 1912
Ohio and Little Kanawha Railroad 1900 1966
Pan Handle Railroad 1868 1871
Pan Handle Railway 1861 1868
Panther Railroad 1895 Unknown
Parkersburg Branch Railroad 1865 1912
Patterson's Creek and Potomac Railroad 1900 1912
Paw Paw Railroad 1857 1912
Pennsboro and Harrisville Railroad 1873 1879
Pennsboro and Harrisville Ritchie County Railway 1880 1905
Pennsylvania Railroad 1846 1968
Pickens and Addison Railway 1903 Unknown
Pickens and Hackers Valley Railroad 1899 1921
Pickens and Webster Springs Railroad 1912 1915
Piedmont and Cumberland Railway 1886 1905
Piney River and Paint Creek Railroad 1905 1918
Pittsburg and Steubenville Railroad 1849 1867
Pittsburg, Cincinnati and St. Louis Railway 1868 1890
Pittsburgh Southern Railway 1879 1884
Pittsburgh and West Virginia Railway 1916 1967
Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, Chicago and St. Louis Railroad 1917 1956
Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, Chicago and St. Louis Railway 1890 1917
Pittsburgh, Wheeling and Kentucky Railroad 1871 1917
Pocahontas Railroad 1901 Unknown
Pocahontas, Coal River and Kanawha Railway 1899 1903
Point Pleasant Bridge Company 1886 1935
Point Pleasant and Ohio River Railroad 1881 1885
Point Pleasant, Buckhannon and Tygart's Valley Railroad 1892 1912
Pond Fork Railway 1915 1918
Pond Fork and Bald Knob Railroad 1919 1933
Porters Creek and Gauley Railroad 1896 1904
Potomac Valley Railroad of West Virginia 1890 1905
Potomac and Piedmont Coal and Railroad Company 1866 1881
Powellton and Pocahontas Railway 1891 1902
Preston Railroad 1897 1960
Raleigh and Pocahontas Railroad 1902 Unknown
Raleigh and Southwestern Railway 1903 1910
Ravenswood, Spencer and Glenville Railway 1886 1912
Richmond, Toledo and Chicago Railroad 1881 1881
Richwood and Gauley Railroad 1911 Unknown
Ripley and Mill Creek Valley Railroad 1886 1912
Roaring Creek and Belington Railroad 1893 1919
Roaring Creek and Charleston Railroad 1893 1904
Rowlesburg and Southern Railroad 1911 1950
Sewell Valley Railroad 1907 1931
Shenandoah Valley Railroad 1867 1890
Shenandoah Valley Railway 1890 1890
South Branch Railway 1871 1912
Strouds Creek and Muddlety Railroad 1904 2000
Tug River and Kentucky Railroad 1913 1936
Tunnelton, Kingwood and Fairchance Railroad 1888 1899
Twin Mountain and Potomac Railroad 1911 1919
Valley River Railroad 1907 1931
Virginian Railway 1907 1959
Virginian 1919 1922
Virginia 1907 1912
Wabash Pittsburgh Terminal Railway 1904 1916
Walkersville and Ireland Railroad 1907 1924
West Virginia Central and Pittsburg Railway 1881 1905
West Virginia Midland Railroad 1905 1924
West Virginia Midland Railway 1883 1886
West Virginia Northern Railroad 1899 1991
West Virginia Railroad 1886 1897
West Virginia Short Line Railroad 1895 1912
West Virginia South Western Railroad 1902 1909
West Virginia Southern Railway 1895 1897
West Virginia and Ironton Railroad 1888 1890
West Virginia and Pittsburg Railroad 1890 1912
West Virginia and Southern Railroad 1897 Unknown
Western Maryland Railroad 1853 1909
Western Maryland Railway 1909 1989
Weston and Buckhannon Railroad 1882 1890
Weston and Centreville Railroad 1882 1882
Weston and Elk River Railroad 1889 1889
Weston and West Fork Railroad 1875 1889
Wheeling Bridge and Terminal Railway 1889 1900
Wheeling Terminal Railway 1900 1954
Wheeling and Harrisburg Railway 1882 1889
Wheeling and Lake Erie Railroad 1871 1916
Wheeling and Lake Erie Railway 1886 1988
Wheeling, Parkersburg and Charleston Railway 1881 1882
Wheeling, Pittsburgh and Baltimore Railroad 1872 Unknown
White Oak Railway 1905 1917
White Sulphur and Huntersville Railroad 1912 Unknown
Williamson and Pond Creek Railroad 1912 1936
Williamsport, Nessle and Martinsburg Railway 1913 1937
Winchester and Potomac Railroad 1831 1988
Winchester and Western Railroad 1916 1930
Winding Gulf Railroad 1906 Unknown
Winifrede Railroad 1881 1987