Download or read book The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad in West Virginia written by Bob Withers and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2007 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1827, a group of Baltimore capitalists feared their city would be left out of the lucrative East Coast-to-Midwest trade that other eastern cities were developing; thus, the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad was chartered. Political pressure kept the B&O out of Pennsylvania at first, and so track crews headed for what is now West Virginia, building mountainous routes with torturous grades to Wheeling and Parkersburg. Eventually the B&O financed and acquired a spiderweb of branch lines that covered much of the northern and central parts of the Mountain State. This book takes a close look at the line's locomotives, passenger and freight trains, structures, and, most importantly, its people who endeared their company to generations of travelers, shippers, and small Appalachian communities.
Download or read book The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad in West Virginia written by Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company. Public Relations Department and published by . This book was released on 1952 with total page 9 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Baltimore and Ohio Railroad in West Virginia written by Bob Withers and published by Arcadia Library Editions. This book was released on 2007-09 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1827, a group of Baltimore capitalists feared their city would be left out of the lucrative East Coast-to-Midwest trade that other eastern cities were developing; thus, the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad was chartered. Political pressure kept the B&O out of Pennsylvania at first, and so track crews headed for what is now West Virginia, building mountainous routes with torturous grades to Wheeling and Parkersburg. Eventually the B&O financed and acquired a spiderweb of branch lines that covered much of the northern and central parts of the Mountain State. This book takes a close look at the line's locomotives, passenger and freight trains, structures, and, most importantly, its people who endeared their company to generations of travelers, shippers, and small Appalachian communities.
Download or read book History of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad written by John F. Stover and published by Purdue University Press. This book was released on 1987 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Baltimore & Ohio Railroad was the first common carrier railroad in America. As an economic historian, Stover tells the history of the B & O from its beginnings in 1928, and through the dark times of this country's economic growth and downswings. He examines the programs undertaken by the company throughout its history to improve its lines, equipment, and service.
Download or read book A Copy of the Report of the Baltimore Ohio Railroad Co as Made to the Board of Public Works of West Virginia for the Year Ending December 31st 1905 written by Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book West Virginia Railroads written by Bob Withers and published by . This book was released on 2022-07-23 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Noted railroad author and B&O historian Bob Withers does a great job telling this important part of the West Virginia Railroads story. This third volume of the series features the B&O that entered the state in the 1830's and grew with the development of the coal and lumber industries.
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 Grafton West Virginia and the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company written by Scott Allan West and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad written by Eugene Weiser and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2013-01-13 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The History of American Railroads series takes you through the trials and tribulations faced by the influential railroads that formed America. The first book in the series discusses the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad from beginning until it was absorbed by the CSX railroad.
Download or read book The West Virginia Rail Company Vs The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company Et Al written by Willis H. Fowle and published by . This book was released on 1917* with total page 27 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Agreement Between the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company and the Kanawha and Michigan Railway Company May 31 1909 Covering Overhead Crossing by the K M Railway Near Point Pleasant West Virginia written by Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 3 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The West Virginia Rail Company Vs The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company Et Al written by Willis H. Fowle and published by . This book was released on 1917* with total page 17 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Defunct West Virginia Railroads written by Source Wikipedia and published by University-Press.org. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 78. Chapters: Penn Central Transportation Company, Shenandoah Valley Railroad, Pennsylvania Railroad, Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, New York Central Railroad, Virginian Railway, List of West Virginia railroads, Norfolk and Western Railway, Chesapeake and Ohio Railway, Consolidated Rail Corporation, Western Maryland Railway, Winchester and Potomac Railroad, New York, Chicago and St. Louis Railroad, Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, Chicago and St. Louis Railroad, Cumberland Valley Railroad, Pittsburgh and West Virginia Railway, Monongahela Railway, West Penn Railways, Covington and Ohio Railroad, Wheeling and Lake Erie Railway, Buffalo Creek and Gauley Railroad, Cumberland and Pennsylvania Railroad, West Virginia Central and Pittsburg Railway, Greenbrier, Cheat and Elk Railroad, Fuller Syndicate, Ohio Valley Electric Railway, Kanawha and Pocahontas Railroad, Pittsburgh Southern Railway, Big Stony Railway, Cleveland, Tuscarawas Valley and Wheeling Railway, West Virginia Northern Railroad, Deepwater Railway, Big Sandy, East Lynn and Guyan Railroad, Coal and Iron Railway, Twin Mountain and Potomac Railroad. Excerpt: Shenandoah Valley Railroad was a line completed on June 19, 1882 extending down the Shenandoah Valley from Hagerstown, Maryland USA through the West Virginia panhandle into Virginia to reach Roanoke, Virginia and a connection with the Norfolk and Western Railway (N&W). The development of this railroad had considerable backing from the Pennsylvania Railroad. On September 1890 it went into bankruptcy and was reorganized as the Shenandoah Valley Railway. Then in December 1890, it became part of N&W. Today the tracks are a major artery of the Norfolk Southern system. South of Harrisonburg, Virginia, a former part of the Norfolk Southern System a few miles west was a parallel line originally called the Valley Railroad. It was built in...
Download or read book The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad written by Festus Paul Summers and published by . This book was released on 1933 with total page 646 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Virginia Railroads Volume 2 written by Thomas Dixon and published by TLC Publishing. This book was released on 2011-09-01 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This second volume in a series of books about railroading in Virginia details the history of the Chesapeake & Ohio Railway from its inception as the Louisa Railroad in central Virginia in 1836 up to modern times. Each chapter explains how a subdivision of the railway developed, including the types of locomotive used, the nature of the traffic carried, and geographical considerations. The many photographs are mostly from the 1930-1960 era. Maps and track plans add to the rich illustrative treatment, making this a gazetteer of the line.
Download or read book The Great Road written by James D. Dilts and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 1996-10-01 with total page 594 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This masterful, richly illustrated account of the planning and building of the most important and influential early American railroad contributes not only to the railway history but to the history of the development of the United States in the 19th century. 80 illustrations.
Download or read book Report of Joint Committee of Legislature of West Virginia Appointed to Enquire Into the Charges for Freight and Travel of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad written by West Virginia. Legislature and published by . This book was released on 1878 with total page 69 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
