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Bluefield, West Virginia: Walton, West Virginia: Forrest District-C Line Bement, Illinois: Gibson City, Illinois: Formerly Wabash 6th, 7th and 8th Districts, which ran from Chicago (Dearborn Station) to Effingham, IL. C Line partially abandoned from Manhattan, IL to Gibson City, IL and completely abandoned from Bement, Il to Effingham, IL.
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 ...
The Pocahontas (or the Pokey for short) was a named overnight passenger train, operated by the Norfolk and Western Railway (N&W) in the United States.It made its inaugural operation on November 21, 1926, with two trains; Nos. 3 and 4, which both ran 676 miles (1,088 km) daily at night on the N&W mainline between Norfolk, Virginia, and Cincinnati, Ohio, with a through-connection to and from ...
CSX Transportation owns and operates a vast network of rail lines in the United States east of the Mississippi River.In addition to the major systems which merged to form CSX – the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, Chesapeake and Ohio Railway, Louisville and Nashville Railroad, Atlantic Coast Line Railroad and Seaboard Air Line Railroad – it also owns major lines in the Northeastern United ...
If you were paying attention in history class, you’ll recall the Underground Railroad wasn’t a railroad at all. Rather, it was a fluid network of locations where freedom seekers sought refuge ...
1886 system map. The source of the Wabash name was the Wabash River, a 475-mile (764 km)-long river in the eastern United States that flows southwest from northwest Ohio near Fort Recovery, across northern Indiana to Illinois where it forms the southern portion of the Illinois-Indiana border before draining into the Ohio River, of which it is the largest northern tributary.
The West Virginia Night Express (also sometimes called the Wheeling Night Express) was an American named train of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad (B&O) on its route between Chicago, Illinois and Wheeling, West Virginia, with major station stops in Willard and Newark, Ohio. The B&O inaugurated the West Virginia Night Express in 1912. It was ...
"Keeping the Flames of Freedom Alive", Underground Railroad Monument in Windsor, Ontario, Canada. Detroit, Michigan is in the background. The Act Against Slavery of 1793 stated that any enslaved person would become free on arrival in Upper Canada. A network of routes led from the United States to Upper and Lower Canada. [1]