Author: Alan Clarke
Publisher: Quarrier Press
ISBN: 9781891852985
Category : Photography
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
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.
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
Author: United States. Emergency Board No. 64
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Arbitration, Industrial
Languages : en
Pages : 16
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Arbitration, Industrial
Languages : en
Pages : 16
Book Description
West Virginia And Pittsburgh Railroad
Author: Alan Clarke
Publisher: Quarrier Press
ISBN: 9781891852985
Category : Photography
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
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.
Publisher: Quarrier Press
ISBN: 9781891852985
Category : Photography
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
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.
Annual Report of the Pittsburgh & West Virginia Railway Company and West Side Belt Railroad Company
Author: Pittsburgh & West Virginia Railway Company
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 28
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 28
Book Description
The Pittsburgh & West Virginia Railway
Author: Howard V. Worley
Publisher: Withers Pub
ISBN: 9780961850357
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
Publisher: Withers Pub
ISBN: 9780961850357
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
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
Author: United States. Emergency Board No. 64
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Arbitration, Industrial
Languages : en
Pages : 8
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Arbitration, Industrial
Languages : en
Pages : 8
Book Description
Pittsburgh & West Virginia Railway Timetables
Author: Howard V. Worley
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780965862059
Category : Railroad travel
Languages : en
Pages : 508
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780965862059
Category : Railroad travel
Languages : en
Pages : 508
Book Description
Corporate History of the Pennsylvania Lines West of Pittsburgh
West Side Belt Railroad
Author: Howard V. Worley
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780965862042
Category : Railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 159
Book Description
"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."
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780965862042
Category : Railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 159
Book Description
"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."
Wabash Pittsburgh Terminal Railway
Author: Howard V. Worley
Publisher: Howdy Productions
ISBN: 9780965862011
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 177
Book Description
Publisher: Howdy Productions
ISBN: 9780965862011
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 177
Book Description
Report
Author: Citizens Committee on City Plan of Pittsburgh
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : City planning
Languages : en
Pages : 94
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : City planning
Languages : en
Pages : 94
Book Description