User:MountainRail/Draft Kanawha and Michigan
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| Overview | |
|---|---|
| Locale | West Virginia and Ohio |
| Dates of operation | 1890–1920s? |
| Predecessor | Kanawha and Ohio Railway |
| Successor | New York Central Railroad |
| Technical | |
| Track gauge | 4 ft 8+1⁄2 in (1,435 mm) standard gauge |
| Length | 163 miles |
The Kanawha and Michigan Railway was a railroad that operated in the eastern United States in the late nineteenth- and early twentieth-centuries. The railroad ran from Corning, Ohio to Gauley Bridge, West Virginia. The line was bought by the New York Central Railroad in 1914.
History
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Annual report - Public Service Commission, Volume 6. State of West Virginia, Public Service Commission., 1920. pg. 499-500.
- ^ United States Interstate Commerce Commission. Interstate Commerce Commission Reports: Decisions of the Interstate Commerce Commission of the United States. Valuation reports, Volume 28. The Commission, 1930. Text available here
- ^ Kanawha & Michigan Railway Company. Annual Report of the Board of Directors. 1907.
- ^ West Virginia Geological and Economic Survey. Kanawha county. Wheeling news litho. co., 1914.
- ^ Otis K. Rice, Stephen Wayne Brown. West Virginia: A History. University Press of Kentucky, 1993. pg. 185-187
- ^ Bumgardner, Stan. Charleston: West, Virginia. Arcadia Publishing, Jun 7, 2006. pg. 32.