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Which is the only Appalachian Corridor highway that has not been completed?
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Which major railroad was completed on December 24, 1852?
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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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How many miles of the James River & Kanawha Canal were in present-day West Virginia?
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Which road today follows the approximate path of the National Road?
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The second major railroad in southern West Virginia, this line carried its first load of coal from Mercer County in 1883.
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What was the United States' first commercial railroad?
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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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William Nelson Page directed the building of this railroad
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