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What rail service was created when Congress passed the 1970 National Passenger Railroad Act
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Which one of these cities was NOT located along the line of the Chesapeake & Ohio Railway?
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Which leading industrialist built the Coal & Coke Railway from Charleston to Gassaway?
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Which one of the following is still a major railroad carrier in West Virginia?
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Where is the last operating river ferry in West Virginia?
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Which one of the following towns did the Giles, Fayette & Kanawha Turnpike NOT directly pass through?
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Locks and dams on this river allowed for some of the earliest commercial coal mining in present-day West Virginia.
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What industry were Shay locomotives associated with?
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This important railroad was also known as the Deepwater.
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William Nelson Page directed the building of this railroad
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