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OLD OLD McClure, Wheeling-Parkersburg RR news
Posted by: Daniel Robinson (ID *****7243) Date: September 26, 2008 at 06:03:14
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" The Shepherdstown Register "
Sat. Nov. 15, 1879

The peliminary organization, of a company, Capt. John McClure, president, was effected at Wheeling, W. Va., to build a narrow gauge railroad from Wheeling to Parkersburg, a distance of 94 miles. The capital stock of the road is to be $ 1,000,000. The road may be continued to Charleston, W. Va., on the Kanawha river, and the Chesapeake and Ohio railroad.


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