Download or read book West Virginia And Pittsburgh Railroad written by Alan Clarke and published by Quarrier Press. This book was released on 2023-01-30 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book documents the construction of railroads in West Virginia, largely to access the untouched stands of timber in such counties as Upshur, Webster, Nicholas, and Randolph. Johnson Newlon Camden and Henry Gassaway Davis were the two men that were the driving forces behind these railroads. They were industrialists and politicians as well as friends and rivals. Camden built the Clarksburg, Weston and Glenville Railroad connecting Clarksburg and Weston in north central West Virginia. Completed in 1879, it was extended to Buckhannon in the fall of 1883. The West Virginia and Pittsburgh Railroad soon built extensions from Weston to the Gauley River and south from Buckhannon. Davis started construction of the West Virginia Central and Pittsburgh Railway in 1880, which followed the North Branch of the Potomac River south into Tucker and Randolph Counties. Sawmills and towns sprang up all along the railroads as vast quantities of lumber were harvested from the forests of West Virginia. As the forests were denuded, mines opened, more towns were built, and coal replaced lumber as the principal freight. While sections of the W. Va. & Pittsburgh have been abandoned, the present day successor to the B. & O. still hauls coal along these rail lines to the voracious power plants of the eastern United States. Author and railroad scholar Alan Clarke has once again offered an in-depth look at the building of railroads in West Virginia in the late nineteenth century. Much of the technical and historical information in the book will be of special interest to railroad buffs. However, Clarke's grasp of the state at that time in history, as well as the book's vintage photographs, maps, and illustrations, cause this book to appeal to anyone interested in the history of the Mountain State.
Download or read book The Pittsburgh West Virginia Railway written by Howard V. Worley and published by Withers Pub. This book was released on 1989-01-01 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Annual Report of the President and Directors of the West Virginia Central and Pittsburgh Railway Co to the Stockholders written by West Virginia Central and Pittsburgh Railway Company and published by . This book was released on 1888 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Annual Report of the Pittsburgh West Virginia Railway Company and West Side Belt Railroad Company written by Pittsburgh & West Virginia Railway Company and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Report to the President by the Emergency Board Created August 26 1948 by Executive Order 9991 Pursuant to Section 10 of the Railway Labor Act to Investigate a Dispute Between the Pittsburgh and West Virginia Railway Company and Certain of Its Employees Represented by the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen Pittsburgh Pa Sept 13 1948 No 64 written by United States. Emergency Board No. 64 and published by . This book was released on 1948 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Report to the President by the Emergency Board Created August 26 1948 by Executive Order 9991 Pursuant to Section 10 of the Railway Labor Act written by United States. Emergency Board No. 64 and published by . This book was released on 1948 with total page 8 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Annual Report of the Pittsburgh West Virginia Railway Company written by Pittsburgh & West Virginia Railway Company and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Pittsburgh West Virginia Railway Timetables written by Howard V. Worley and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 508 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Annual Report of the Pittsburgh West Virginia Railway Company and West Side Belt Railroad Company written by Pittsburgh & West Virginia Railway Company and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Corporate History of the Pennsylvania Lines West of Pittsburgh written by and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 1138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book West Side Belt Railroad written by Howard V. Worley and published by . This book was released on 2006-01-01 with total page 159 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Completes the Pittsburgh Railroad Book trilogy that spanned the life of this railroad and its predecessor Little Saw Mill Run line, the receivership years under the ill-fated Wabash Pittsburgh Terminal Railway, and the rebirth as part of the Pittsburgh & West Virginia Railway. It is fitting as tribute to the "old Lady" and those many folks who worked for the line to record the birth, life, and times of one of Pittsburgh's most historically important , [and first important coal hauling] railroads."
Download or read book Wabash Pittsburgh Terminal Railway written by Howard V. Worley and published by Howdy Productions. This book was released on 2004-04-01 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Corporate History of the Pennsylvania Lines West of Pittsburgh written by and published by . This book was released on 1898 with total page 1052 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Annual Report of the Pittsburgh West Virginia Railway Company and West Side Belt Railroad Company written by Pittsburgh & West Virginia Railway Company and published by . This book was released on 1946 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Investigation of Railroads Holding Companies Affiliated Companies and Related Matters written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Interstate Commerce and published by . This book was released on 1939 with total page 2088 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Investigation of Railroads Holding Companies and Affiliated Companies Preliminary Report 1926 1929 written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Interstate Commerce and published by . This book was released on 1940 with total page 1116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Steam and Diesel Era in Wheeling West Virginia written by Nicholas Fry and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For nearly seventy years, John J. Young Jr. photographed railroads. With unparalleled scope and span, he documented the impact and beauty of railways in American life from 1936 to 2004. As a child during the Great Depression, J. J. Young Jr. began to photograph railroads in Wheeling, West Virginia. This book collects over one hundred fifty of those images--some unpublished until now--documenting the railroads of Wheeling and the surrounding area from the 1930s until the 1960s. The photographs within this book highlight the major railroads of Wheeling: the Baltimore & Ohio, the Pennsylvania, the Wheeling & Lake Erie, the Pittsburgh & West Virginia, the New York Central, and the industrial and interurban rail lines that crisscrossed the region. These images capture the routine activities of trains that carried passengers and freight to and from the city and its industries, as well as more unusual traffic, such as a circus-advertising car, the General Motors Train of Tomorrow, and the 1947 American Freedom Train.
