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Pages in category "Preserved steam locomotives of West Virginia" The following 4 pages are in this category, out of 4 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
The Durbin and Greenbrier Valley Railroad (reporting mark DGVR) is a heritage and freight railroad in the U.S. states of Virginia and West Virginia.It operates the West Virginia State Rail Authority-owned Durbin Railroad and West Virginia Central Railroad (reporting mark WVC), [1] [2] as well as the Shenandoah Valley Railroad in Virginia.
Western Maryland Railway Steam Locomotive No. 202: 1984 NRHP Hagerstown, MD: MI-01 Pere Marquette Railway Locomotive No. 1223: 2000 NRHP Grand Haven, MI: MI-02 Nahma and Northern Railway Locomotive No. 5: 2005 NRHP Nahma Township, MI: MI-03 Pere Marquette Railway Steam Locomotive No. 1225: 2004 NRHP Owosso, MI: MN-01 Soo Line Locomotive 2719: 4 ...
The Buffalo Creek and Gauley Railroad (BC&G) was a railroad chartered on April 1, 1904 [1] and ran along Buffalo Creek in Clay County, West Virginia. The original Buffalo Creek and Gauley ended service in 1965. The BC&G was one of the last all-steam railroads, never operating a diesel locomotive to the day it shut down on February 27, 1965. [2]
Ogle Winston Link [1] (December 16, 1914 – January 30, 2001), known commonly as O. Winston Link, was an American photographer, best known for his black-and-white photography and sound recordings of the last days of steam locomotive railroading on the Norfolk and Western in the United States in the late 1950s.
The state established the West Virginia Central Railroad, which has contracted with the Durbin and Greenbrier Valley Railroad (DGVR) to operate a heritage railway on portions of the line. [ 4 ] Out of the locomotives owned and operated by the company, two are preserved, both under ownership of the State of West Virginia.
A drawing design of the N&W class J locomotive. After the outbreak of World War II, the Norfolk and Western Railway's (N&W) mechanical engineering team developed a new locomotive—the streamlined class J 4-8-4 Northern—to handle rising mainline passenger traffic over the Blue Ridge Mountains, especially on steep grades in Virginia and West Virginia.
The locomotive was completely overhauled and returned to service in 2005. Since 2010, it visited the Cuyahoga Valley Scenic Railroad, hauling several excursions every year. From 2012 to 2015, No. 765 ran excursions on Norfolk Southern trackage in Indiana, Missouri, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and West Virginia, for the 21st Century Steam program.