West Virginia Midland Railroad

The West Virginia Midland Railroad was a railroad in West Virginia chartered in 1905 with an initial capital of $500,000. Executives planned to build a railroad from Sutton on the B&O Railroad southwest via Webster Springs to Marlington, a distance of about fifty miles (80 km). Incorporators were Col. John T. McGraw of Grafton, former Congressman C. P. Dorr, J.E. Woddell of Webster Springs, G. A. Hechner of Palmer, and C. D. Elliott of Parkersburg.[1]

West Virginia Midland Railroad
Map of the railroad (railroad in red, other lines in blue)
Overview
LocaleWest Virginia

References

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  1. ^ The Railroad Gazette, Volume XXXIX, no. 10 (1905), page 80.
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