Buffalo Creek & Gauley by William E. Warden Soft Cover

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Buffalo Creek & Gauley by William E. Warden Soft Cover
Buffalo Creek & Gauley by William E. Warden
Soft Cover
Copyright 1991
By William E. Warden
80 Pages
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Question: What did the 18-mile Buffalo Creek & Gauley Railroad have in common with the 2134-mile Norfolk & Western Railway?
Answer: Each in its own season the N&W in the early 1950's and the BC&G less than a decade later - were the largest 100 percent steam-powered common carrier, standard gauge railroads in North America. That the distinction of being the largest rail line in steam should pass from the N&W to a road not one one-hundredth its size in under 10 years is stark testimony to the speed with which steam was being retired and scrapped in the 1950's.
Devotion to steam, thanks to inexpensive on-line coal - and being profitable - were all these two rail lines had in common. Whereas the N&W sprawled across 6 states and reached such population centers as Cincinnati, Columbus, and Norfolk, the tiny BC&G plied its trade in just one county: West Virginia's remote Clay (area: 342 square miles, population: 11,942 in 1960.) Its largest on-line community was the metropolis of Widen (population: 600 in 1960.)
And while slack-jawed train watchers flocked to the N&W's Blue Ridge Grade, Christiansburg Hill, and other vantage points, the BC&G largely went unnoticed until finally it was just about the only show in town. (Be fair to the train watchers: if, as the Smithsonian Institution's Curator of Transportation, Bill Withuhn observed, the N&W's A-class 2-6-6-4's were "The Mercedes of Steam," the BC&G's motive power was a group of bituminous-fed Ford pickups.)
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