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Lemuel Chenoweth is best remembered for what type of construction?
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What rail service was created when Congress passed the 1970 National Passenger Railroad Act
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Which major railroad was completed on December 24, 1852?
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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 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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Locks and dams on this river allowed for some of the earliest commercial coal mining in present-day West Virginia.
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During the Civil War, "Stonewall" Jackson burned down the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad shops in this city.
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What is today's successor to the old N&W Railway?
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Of the six turnpikes chartered in present West Virginia by Virginia before the Civil War, how many were built?
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