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Pittsburgh and West Virginia Railway
The
Pittsburgh and West Virginia Railway
was a
railroad
in the
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
and
Wheeling, West Virginia
areas. Originally built as the Wabash Pittsburgh Terminal Railway, a
Pittsburgh
extension of
George J. Gould
's
Wabash Railroad
, the venture entered
receivership
in 1908 and the line was cut loose. An extension completed in 1931 connected it to the
Western Maryland Railway
at
Connellsville, Pennsylvania
, forming the
Alphabet Route
, an independent line between the
Northeastern U.S.
and the
Midwest
. It was leased by the
Norfolk and Western Railway
in 1964 in conjunction with the N&W acquiring several other sections of the former Alphabet Route, but was leased to the new spinoff
Wheeling and Lake Erie Railway
in 1990, just months before the N&W was merged into the
Norfolk Southern Railway
.
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