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Today in WV History
15 May

The section of Cass Scenic Railroad from Cass to Durbin reopened for the first time since it was destroyed in the 1985 flood

The Cass Scenic Railroad, the major attraction at the Cass Scenic Railroad State Park in Pocahontas County, offers excursion rides on a historic logging railroad line. The railroad is the last segment of the once vast railroad network built, begin...

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