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Roads and Railroads

Be transported: See how much you know about the state’s roads, bridges, and railroads.


1

Constitutional amendments approved by West Virginia voters in 1920 and 1928 led to this development.

2

Bridge Day celebrates which famous West Virginia highway span?

3

Where was the last spike driven to complete the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad from Baltimore to the Ohio River?

4

Lemuel Chenoweth is best remembered for what type of construction?

5

Which one of the following railroads did not extend into the heart of southern West Virginia’s coalfields?

6

Which one of the following major transportation routes did NOT pass through Wheeling?

7

In 1877, a national strike in which one of the following industries escalated into violence at Martinsburg?

8

What railroad found itself under construction in the middle of the Hatfield-McCoy Feud?

9

Which was the last Interstate highway completed in West Virginia?

10

Where does the song say that John Henry, West Virginia’s famous steel driver, defeated the steam drill?


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