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THE DESTRUCTIVE AGENTS OP FORESTS. 



NORFOLK AND WESTERN RAILROAD, 



Date of opening. 



MAIN LINE OF N. & W. RAILROAD 



Completed to Charlestown, Jefferson Co., 

 Completed to Bluefield, Mercer Co., . . . . 



1879 

 1883 



WIDEMOUTH BRANCH 



Main Line to Wenonah 1904 



TUG FORK BRANCH 



Completed to above Pageton, 1909 



CLEAR FORK BRANCH 



In McDowell County, April, 190 5 



DRY FORK BRANCH 



Completed to Cranebrake, March, 1906 



OHIO EXTENSION 



(Road including Welch, Williamson, Wayne and 



Ceredo.) Nov. 1892 



KENOVA AND BIG SANDY LINE 



Naugatuck to Kenova, Dec. 1904 



KANAWHA AND MICHIGAN RAILROAD. 



Date of opening. 



MAIN LINE 



Point Pleasant to Charleston, 



Charleston to Gauley, 



1882 



Aug. 1893 



THE WESTERN MARYLAND RAILROAD. 



Date of opening. 



MAIN LINE 



Piedmont to Davis, .... 

 Extended to Parsons, . . 

 Extended to Elkins, . . . . 

 Extended to Belington, . 

 Extended to Huttonsville, 



1887 

 1889 

 1890 

 1891 

 1898 



Coal & Iron Branch, 



Elkins to Durbin, . 



Aug. 1903 



COAL AND COKE RAILROAD. 



Date of opening. 



MAIN LINE 



(Begun at Charleston, 1893.) 



Charleston to Clay, 



Extended to Gassaway and Sago, 

 Branch to Coalton, 



.Jan. 1897 

 Sept. 1904 

 1903 



