Coal & Coke Railway

From West Virginia Railroads - Model Railroading

In May of 1892, Henry G. Davis incorporated the Coal & Coke Railroad (C&C), and purchased the existing Charleston, Clendenin & Sutton Railroad which had completed a rail line from Charleston to Flatwoods, WV. The Coal & Coke Railway (C&C) extended in a general northeast-southwest direction from Elkins (http://www.wvexp.com/index.php/Elkins%2C_West_Virginia) to Charleston, WV (http://www.wvexp.com/index.php/Charleston%2C_West_Virginia), a distance of 175 miles.

The C&C line connecting Elkins and Charleston was completed in January of 1906. The C&C provided a direct link between the railroad lines in the northern and southern parts of West Virginia, thus providing both northern and southern coalfields (http://www.wvexp.com/index.php/Category:Coal_Fields) with easier access to "western markets," e.g., the Great Lakes.

In 1917 the Coal & Coke Railway was taken over by the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad (B&O).