List of West Virginia railroads
The following railroads operate in the U.S. state of West Virginia.
Common freight carriers
- Appalachian and Ohio Railroad
- Beech Mountain Railroad
- CSX Transportation
- Durbin and Greenbrier Valley Railroad operates Durbin Railroad and West Virginia Central Railroad
- Elk River Railroad
- Kanawha River Railroad
- Norfolk Southern Railway
- R.J. Corman Railroad/West Virginia Line
- South Branch Valley Railroad
- Wheeling and Lake Erie Railway
- Winchester and Western Railroad
Private freight carriers
- Little Kanawha River Rail, Inc.
- Short Line Services operates Big Eagle Rail, LLC, lessor of Kanawha Rail Corporation
- Kanawha River Terminal Railroad
Passenger carriers
- Amtrak
- Cass Scenic Railroad
- Durbin and Greenbrier Valley Railroad
- MARC
- Potomac Eagle Scenic Railroad
- South Branch Valley Railroad
Defunct railroads
| Name | Mark | System | From | To | Successor | Notes |
| Alexander and Eastern Railway | 1906 | N/A | - | |||
| Alexander and Rich Mountain Railroad | 1892 | 1899 | Alexander and Rich Mountain Railway | - | ||
| Alexander and Rich Mountain Railway | 1899 | 1906 | Alexander and Eastern Railway | - | ||
| Allegheny and Western Railway | NYC | 1905 | 1918 | Kanawha and West Virginia Railroad | - | |
| Atlantic and Northwestern Railroad | NYC | 1881 | 1882 | Ohio Central Railroad | - | |
| Baltimore and Ohio Railroad | B&O, BO | B&O | 1827 | 1987 | Chesapeake and Ohio Railway | - |
| Belington and Beaver Creek Railroad | WM | 1899 | 1905 | Western Maryland Railroad | - | |
| Belington and Northern Railroad | B&O | 1900 | 1941 | N/A | - | |
| Benwood and Wheeling Connecting Railway | 1900 | 1960 | N/A | - | ||
| Berkeley Springs Railroad | B&O | 1911 | 1912 | Baltimore and Ohio Railroad | - | |
| Berkeley Springs and Potomac Railroad | B&O | 1880 | 1910 | Berkeley Springs Railroad | - | |
| Big Sandy and Cumberland Railroad | BS&C | N&W | 1900 | 1932 | Norfolk and Western Railway | - |
| Big Sandy, East Lynn and Guyan Railroad | N&W | 1902 | 1908 | Norfolk and Western Railway | - | |
| Big Stony Railway | N&W | 1910 | 1915 | Norfolk and Western Railway | - | |
| Black Fork Railroad | 1912 | 1913 | Central West Virginia and Southern Railroad | - | ||
| Blacksville and Western Railway | MGA | 1917 | 1917 | Morgantown and Wheeling Railway | - | |
| Blue Stone Railroad | N&W | 1881 | 1881 | New River Railroad of West Virginia | - | |
| Buckhannon and Northern Railroad | MGA | 1902 | 1915 | Monongahela Railway | - | |
| Buckhannon River Railroad | B&O | 1889 | 1890 | West Virginia and Pittsburg Railroad | - | |
| Buckhannon River Lumber Company | B&O | 1885 | 1889 | Clarksburg, Weston and Midland Railroad | - | |
| Buckhannon and West Fork Railroad | B&O | 1882 | 1890 | Clarksburg, Weston and Midland Railroad | - | |
| Buffalo Creek and Gauley Railroad | 1904 | 1965 | Elk River Railroad | - | ||
| Cairo and Kanawha Railway | 1906 | N/A | - | |||
| Cairo and Kanawha Valley Railroad | 1890 | 1906 | Cairo and Kanawha Railway | - | ||
| Campbell's Creek Railroad | CCK | 1901 | 1962 | N/A | - | |
| Caretta Railway | N&W | 1906 | 1909 | Norfolk and Western Railway | - | |
| Central Railway of West Virginia | B&O | 1898 | 1902 | Morgantown and Kingwood Railroad | - | |
| Central West Virginia and Southern Railroad | 1913 | 1936 | N/A | - | ||
| Chaffee Railroad | WM | 1918 | 1950 | Western Maryland Railway | - | |
| Charleston, Clendenin and Sutton Railroad | B&O | 1891 | 1903 | Coal and Coke Railway | - | |
| Charleston and Gauley Railway | NYC | 1887 | 1890 | Kanawha and Michigan Railway | - | |
| Cheat Haven and Bruceton Railroad | B&O | 1911 | 1965 | N/A | - | |
| Cheat River and Pittsburg Railroad | B&O | 1902 | Morgantown and Kingwood Railroad | - | ||
| Cheat Valley Railroad | B&O | 1897 | 1904 | Morgantown and Kingwood Railroad | - | |
| Chemical and Helvetia Railroad | 1909 | N/A | - | |||
| Cherry Run and Potomac Valley Railroad | B&O | 1892 | 1912 | Baltimore and Ohio Railroad | - | |
| Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad | C&O | 1868 | 1878 | Chesapeake and Ohio Railway | - | |
| Chesapeake and Ohio Railway | C&O, CO | C&O | 1878 | 1987 | CSX Transportation | - |
| Clarksburg, Weston and Glenville Railroad and Transportation Company | B&O | 1878 | 1889 | Clarksburg, Weston and Midland Railroad | - | |
| Clarksburg, Weston and Midland Railroad | B&O | 1890 | 1890 | West Virginia and Pittsburg Railroad | - | |
| Clendenin and Spencer Railroad | 1904 | Kanawha and Northern Railway | - | |||
| Coal and Coke Railway | C&C | B&O | 1902 | 1933 | Baltimore and Ohio Railroad | - |
| Coal and Iron Railway | WM | 1899 | 1905 | Western Maryland Railroad | - | |
| Coal River Railway | C&O | 1905 | 1909 | Chesapeake and Ohio Railway | - | |
| Coal River and Western Railway | C&O | 1903 | 1905 | Coal River Railway | - | |
| Consolidated Rail Corporation | CR | 1976 | 1999 | Norfolk Southern Railway | - | |
| Covington and Ohio Railroad | C&O | 1853 | 1868 | Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad | - | |
| Croft Railroad | 1910 | N/A | - | |||
| Cross Creek Railroad | P&WV | 1900 | 1904 | Wabash Pittsburgh Terminal Railway | - | |
| Cumberland and Pennsylvania Railroad | C&PA, CPA | WM | 1863 | 1953 | Western Maryland Railway | - |
| Cumberland Valley Railroad | PRR | 1873 | 1919 | N/A | Leased the Cumberland Valley and Martinsburg Railroad | |
| Cumberland Valley and Martinsburg Railroad | PRR | 1888 | 1958 | Penndel Company | - | |
| Deepwater Railway | N&W | 1898 | 1907 | Virginian Railway | - | |
| Dry Fork Railroad | 1892 | 1913 | Central West Virginia and Southern Railroad | - | ||
| Elk and Little Kanawha Railroad | 1909 | 1919 | N/A | - | ||
| Elm Grove and State Line Railroad | PRR | 1883 | 1884 | Wheeling and Harrisburg Railway | - | |
| Erbacon and Summersville Railroad | 1911 | N/A | - | |||
| Everson and Adamsville Railroad | B&O | 1902 | 1903 | Monongahela River Railroad | - | |
| Fairmont Bingamon Railway | WM | 1916 | 1950 | Western Maryland Railway | - | |
| Fairmont Helen's Run Railway | WM | 1915 | 1950 | Western Maryland Railway | - | |
| Fairmont, Morgantown and Pittsburg Railroad | B&O | 1883 | 1989 | CSX Transportation | - | |
| Fairmont, Shinnston and Clarksburg Railway | B&O | 1884 | 1912 | Baltimore and Ohio Railroad | - | |
| Gaston Gas Coal Company | B&O | 1883 | 1889 | Monongahela River Railroad | - | |
| Gauley and Eastern Railway | NYC | 1889 | 1920 | Kanawha and West Virginia Railroad | - | |
| Gauley and Meadow River Railroad | C&O | 1912 | 1918 | Chesapeake and Ohio Railway | - | |
| Gauley River Railroad | GRIV | 1998 | 1999 | N/A | Never operated | |
| Glade Creek and Raleigh Railroad | C&O | 1891 | 1906 | Raleigh and Southwestern Railway | - | |
| Glady and Alpena Railroad | 1901 | 1922 | N/A | - | ||
| Glen Jean, Lower Loup and Deepwater Railroad | C&O | 1895 | 1901 | Chesapeake and Ohio Railway | - | |
| Grafton and Belington Railroad | B&O | 1892 | 1912 | Baltimore and Ohio Railroad | - | |
| Grafton and Greenbrier Railroad | B&O | 1881 | 1892 | Grafton and Belington Railroad | - | |
| Greenbrier Railway | C&O | 1897 | 1903 | Chesapeake and Ohio Railway | - | |
| Greenbrier, Cheat and Elk Railroad | WM | 1910 | 1927 | Western Maryland Railway | - | |
| Greenbrier and Eastern Railroad | C&O/ NYC | 1919 | 1931 | Nicholas, Fayette and Greenbrier Railroad | - | |
| Greenbrier and New River Railroad | C&O | 1881 | 1901 | Chesapeake and Ohio Railway | - | |
| Guyan, Big Ugly and Coal River Railway | 1907 | 1921 | N/A | - | ||
| Guyandotte Valley Railroad Company | C&O | 1899 | 1903 | Chesapeake and Ohio Railway | - | |
| Guyandotte and Ohio River Railroad and Mineral Company | NYC | 1872 | 1881 | Atlantic and Northwestern Railroad | - | |
| Hampshire Southern Railroad | B&O | 1906 | 1911 | Moorefield and Virginia Railroad | - | |
| Harrisville and Cornwallis Railroad | 1908 | 1911 | Harrisville Southern Railroad | - | ||
| Harrisville Southern Railroad | 1911 | N/A | - | |||
| Hartland Railroad | 1922 | 1925 | Middle Creek Railroad | - | ||
| Hempfield Railroad | B&O | 1851 | 1871 | Wheeling, Pittsburgh and Baltimore Railroad | - | |
| Holliday's Cove Railroad | PRR | 1860 | 1868 | Pittsburg, Cincinnati and St. Louis Railway | - | |
| Holly River Railroad | 1896 | 1899 | Holly River and Addison Railway | - | ||
| Holly River and Addison Railway | 1898 | 1906 | West Virginia Midland Railroad | - | ||
| Huntington and Big Sandy Railroad | B&O | 1890 | 1912 | Baltimore and Ohio Railroad | - | |
| Iaeger and Southern Railway | N&W | 1898 | 1906 | Norfolk and Western Railway | - | |
| Imboden and Odell Railroad | NYC | 1903 | 1905 | Kanawha and West Virginia Railroad | - | |
| Indian Creek and Northern Railway | MGA | 1918 | 1933 | Monongahela Railway | - | |
| Interior and West Virginia Railroad | N&W | 1906 | 1910 | Big Stony Railway | - | |
| Iron Mountain and Greenbrier Railroad | 1912 | White Sulphur and Huntersville Railroad | - | |||
| Iron Valley and Morgantown Railroad | B&O | 1881 | 1883 | West Virginia Midland Railway | - | |
| Island Creek Railroad | C&O | 1902 | 1933 | Chesapeake and Ohio Railway | - | |
| Kanawha Railway | C&O | 1881 | 1902 | Chesapeake and Ohio Railway | - | |
| Kanawha Bridge and Terminal Company | C&O | 1907 | 1918 | Chesapeake and Ohio Railway | - | |
| Kanawha Central Railway | KC | 1906 | 1977 | N/A | - | |
| Kanawha and Coal River Railroad | 1881 | N/A | - | |||
| Kanawha, Glen Jean and Eastern Railroad | C&O | 1895 | 1940 | Chesapeake and Ohio Railway | - | |
| Kanawha and Michigan Railway | K&M | NYC | 1890 | 1938 | Toledo and Ohio Central Railway | - |
| Kanawha and Northern Railway | 1906 | N/A | - | |||
| Kanawha and Ohio Railway | NYC | 1886 | 1890 | Kanawha and Michigan Railway | - | |
| Kanawha and Paint Creek Railroad | C&O | 1884 | 1895 | Kanawha and Paint Creek Railway | - | |
| Kanawha and Paint Creek Railway | C&O | 1895 | 1902 | Kanawha and Pocahontas Railroad | - | |
| Kanawha and Pennsylvania Railway | NYC | 1903 | 1917 | Kanawha and West Virginia Railroad | - | |
| Kanawha and Pocahontas Railroad | C&O | 1898 | 1905 | Chesapeake and Ohio Railway | - | |
| Kanawha and West Virginia Railroad | K&WV | NYC | 1905 | 1938 | Toledo and Ohio Central Railway | - |
| Kelly's Creek Railroad | 1916 | 1964 | N/A | - | ||
| Kelly's Creek and Northwestern Railroad | KCNW | 1903 | 1993 | N/A | - | |
| Kenova and Big Sandy Railroad | N&W | 1902 | 1904 | Norfolk and Western Railway | - | |
| Kingwood Railway | 1882 | 1888 | Tunnelton, Kingwood and Fairchance Railroad | - | ||
| Little Kanawha Railroad | B&O | 1896 | 1937 | N/A | - | |
| Logan and Southern Railway | C&O | 1907 | 1918 | Chesapeake and Ohio Railway | - | |
| Loop and Lookout Railroad | C&O/ NYC | 1907 | 1931 | Nicholas, Fayette and Greenbrier Railroad | - | |
| Lorama Railroad | 1903 | 1924 | N/A | - | ||
| Mann's Creek Railroad | 1886 | 1955 | N/A | - | ||
| Marlinton and Camden Railroad | 1903 | N/A | - | |||
| Martinsburg and Potomac Railroad | PRR | 1868 | 1888 | Cumberland Valley and Martinsburg Railroad | - | |
| Middle Creek Railroad | 1925 | 1951 | N/A | - | ||
| Monongah and Ohio River Railroad | B&O | 1895 | Monongahela River Railroad | - | ||
| Monongahela Railway | MGA | MGA | 1915 | 1993 | Consolidated Rail Corporation | - |
| Monongahela River Railroad | B&O | 1888 | 1912 | Baltimore and Ohio Railroad | - | |
| Moorefield and Virginia Railroad | B&O | 1910 | 1912 | Baltimore and Ohio Railroad | - | |
| Morgantown and Dunkard Valley Railroad | MGA | 1905 | 1913 | Morgantown and Wheeling Railway | - | |
| Morgantown and Kingwood Railroad | M&K | B&O | 1899 | Baltimore and Ohio Railroad | - | |
| Morgantown and Wheeling Railway | M&W | MGA | 1912 | 1923 | Scotts Run Railway | - |
| New River Railroad, Mining and Manufacturing Company of West Virginia | N&W | 1874 | 1881 | New River Railroad of West Virginia | - | |
| New River Railroad of West Virginia | N&W | 1881 | 1882 | Norfolk and Western Railroad | - | |
| New River Bridge Company | C&O | 1887 | 1890 | Chesapeake and Ohio Railway | - | |
| New York Central Railroad | NYC | NYC | 1922 | 1968 | Penn Central Transportation Company | - |
| New York, Chicago and St. Louis Railroad | NKP | NKP | 1949 | 1964 | Norfolk and Western Railway | - |
| Nicholas, Fayette and Greenbrier Railroad | C&O/ NYC | 1926 | 1996 | Consolidated Rail Corporation, CSX Transportation | - | |
| Norfolk and Western Railroad | N&W | 1882 | 1896 | Norfolk and Western Railway | - | |
| Norfolk and Western Railway | N&W, NW | N&W | 1896 | 1998 | Norfolk Southern Railway | - |
| North Western Virginia Railroad | B&O | 1851 | 1865 | Parkersburg Branch Railroad | - | |
| Ohio Central Railroad | NYC | 1882 | 1885 | Kanawha and Ohio Railway | - | |
| Ohio and Little Kanawha Railroad | B&O | 1900 | 1910 | Baltimore and Ohio Railroad | - | |
| Ohio River Railroad | B&O | 1882 | 1912 | Baltimore and Ohio Railroad | - | |
| Pan Handle Railroad | PRR | 1868 | 1871 | Pittsburgh, Wheeling and Kentucky Railroad | - | |
| Pan Handle Railway | PRR | 1867 | 1868 | Pittsburg, Cincinnati and St. Louis Railway | - | |
| Panther Railroad | 1895 | N/A | - | |||
| Parkersburg Branch Railroad | B&O | 1865 | 1912 | Baltimore and Ohio Railroad | - | |
| Patterson's Creek and Potomac Railroad | B&O | 1900 | 1912 | Baltimore and Ohio Railroad | - | |
| Paw Paw Railroad | B&O | 1900 | 1912 | Baltimore and Ohio Railroad | - | |
| Penn Central Transportation Company | PC | 1968 | 1976 | Consolidated Rail Corporation | - | |
| Penndel Company | PRR | 1954 | 1976 | Consolidated Rail Corporation | - | |
| Pennsboro and Harrisville Railroad | 1873 | 1879 | Pennsboro and Harrisville Ritchie County Railway | - | ||
| Pennsboro and Harrisville Ritchie County Railway | 1880 | 1905 | Lorama Railroad | - | ||
| Pennsylvania Railroad | PRR | PRR | 1920 | 1968 | Penn Central Transportation Company | - |
| Philadelphia, Baltimore and Washington Railroad | PRR | 1956 | 1976 | Consolidated Rail Corporation | - | |
| Pickens and Addison Railway | 1903 | N/A | - | |||
| Pickens and Hackers Valley Railroad | 1899 | 1921 | N/A | - | ||
| Pickens and Webster Springs Railroad | 1912 | 1915 | N/A | - | ||
| Piedmont and Cumberland Railway | WM | 1886 | 1905 | Western Maryland Railroad | - | |
| Piney River and Paint Creek Railroad | C&O | 1905 | 1918 | Chesapeake and Ohio Railway | - | |
| Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, Chicago and St. Louis Railroad | PRR | 1917 | 1956 | Philadelphia, Baltimore and Washington Railroad | - | |
| Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, Chicago and St. Louis Railway | PRR | 1890 | 1917 | Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, Chicago and St. Louis Railroad | - | |
| Pittsburg, Cincinnati and St. Louis Railway | PRR | 1868 | 1890 | Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, Chicago and St. Louis Railway | - | |
| Pittsburgh Southern Railway | B&O | 1881 | 1884 | N/A | Sold at foreclosure; no property in West Virginia | |
| Pittsburg and Steubenville Railroad | PRR | 1856 | 1867 | Pan Handle Railway | - | |
| Pittsburgh and West Virginia Railroad | 1967 | Still exists as a lessor of the Wheeling and Lake Erie Railway | ||||
| Pittsburgh and West Virginia Railway | P&WV | P&WV | 1916 | 1967 | Pittsburgh and West Virginia Railroad | - |
| Pittsburgh, Wheeling and Kentucky Railroad | PRR | 1871 | 1917 | Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, Chicago and St. Louis Railroad | - | |
| Pocahontas Railroad | 1901 | N/A | - | |||
| Pocahontas, Coal River and Kanawha Railway | C&O | 1899 | 1903 | Coal River and Western Railway | - | |
| Point Pleasant Bridge Company | NYC | 1886 | 1935 | Kanawha and Michigan Railway | - | |
| Point Pleasant, Buckhannon and Tygart's Valley Railroad | B&O | 1892 | 1912 | Baltimore and Ohio Railroad | - | |
| Point Pleasant and Ohio River Railroad | NYC | 1881 | 1885 | Kanawha and Michigan Railway, Point Pleasant Bridge Company | - | |
| Pond Fork Railway | C&O | 1915 | 1918 | Chesapeake and Ohio Railway | - | |
| Pond Fork and Bald Knob Railroad | C&O | 1919 | 1933 | Chesapeake and Ohio Railway | - | |
| Porters Creek and Gauley Railroad | 1896 | 1904 | N/A | - | ||
| Potomac and Piedmont Coal and Railroad Company | WM | 1866 | 1881 | West Virginia Central and Pittsburg Railway | - | |
| Potomac Valley Railroad of West Virginia | WM | 1890 | 1905 | Western Maryland Railroad | - | |
| Powellton and Pocahontas Railway | C&O | 1891 | 1902 | Chesapeake and Ohio Railway | - | |
| Preston Railroad | 1897 | 1960 | N/A | - | ||
| Raleigh and Pocahontas Railroad | 1902 | N/A | - | |||
| Raleigh and Southwestern Railway | C&O | 1903 | 1910 | Chesapeake and Ohio Railway | - | |
| Ravenswood, Spencer and Glenville Railway | B&O | 1886 | 1912 | Baltimore and Ohio Railroad | - | |
| Richwood and Gauley Railroad | 1911 | N/A | - | |||
| Richmond, Toledo and Chicago Railroad | NYC | 1881 | 1881 | Atlantic and Northwestern Railroad | - | |
| Ripley and Mill Creek Valley Railroad | B&O | 1886 | 1912 | Baltimore and Ohio Railroad | - | |
| Roaring Creek and Belington Railroad | B&O | 1893 | 1919 | Coal and Coke Railway | - | |
| Roaring Creek and Charleston Railroad | B&O | 1893 | 1904 | Roaring Creek and Belington Railroad | - | |
| Rowlesburg and Southern Railroad | 1911 | 1950 | N/A | - | ||
| Scotts Run Railway | MGA | 1923 | 1933 | Monongahela Railway | - | |
| Sewell Valley Railroad | C&O/ NYC | 1907 | 1931 | Nicholas, Fayette and Greenbrier Railroad | - | |
| Shenandoah Valley Railroad | N&W | 1870 | 1890 | Shenandoah Valley Railway | - | |
| Shenandoah Valley Railway | N&W | 1890 | 1890 | Norfolk and Western Railroad | - | |
| South Branch Railway | B&O | 1871 | 1912 | Baltimore and Ohio Railroad | - | |
| Strouds Creek and Muddlety Railroad | SCM | B&O | 1904 | 2000 | N/A | Most recently subleased to the Gauley River Railroad |
| Tug River and Kentucky Railroad | N&W | 1913 | 1936 | Norfolk and Western Railway | - | |
| Tunnelton, Kingwood and Fairchance Railroad | 1888 | 1899 | West Virginia Northern Railroad | - | ||
| Twin Mountain and Potomac Railroad | 1911 | 1919 | N/A | - | ||
| Valley River Railroad | 1907 | 1931 | N/A | - | ||
| Virginia–Maryland Coal Corporation | B&O | 1907 | 1912 | Monongahela River Railroad | - | |
| Virginian Railway | VGN | N&W | 1907 | 1959 | Norfolk and Western Railway | - |
| Virginian and Western Railway | N&W | 1922 | 1936 | Virginian Railway | - | |
| Virginian–Wyoming Railway | N&W | 1919 | 1922 | Virginian and Western Railway | - | |
| Wabash Pittsburgh Terminal Railway | WPT | P&WV | 1904 | 1916 | Pittsburgh and West Virginia Railway | - |
| Walkersville and Ireland Railroad | 1907 | 1924 | Walkersville and Southern Railroad | - | ||
| Walkersville and Southern Railroad | 1924 | 1930 | N/A | - | ||
| Wardensville Railroad | 1929 | 1929 | Winchester and Wardensville Railroad | - | ||
| Waynesburg Southern Railroad | WAS | MGA | 1966 | 1976 | Consolidated Rail Corporation | - |
| West Virginia Railroad | B&O | 1886 | 1897 | Morgantown and Kingwood Railroad | - | |
| West Virginia Central and Pittsburg Railway | WM | 1881 | 1905 | Western Maryland Railroad | - | |
| West Virginia and Ironton Railroad | N&W | 1888 | 1890 | Norfolk and Western Railroad | - | |
| West Virginia Midland Railroad | 1905 | 1924 | West Virginia Midland Railway | - | ||
| West Virginia Midland Railway | 1924 | 1931 | N/A | - | ||
| West Virginia Midland Railway | B&O | 1883 | 1886 | Fairmont, Morgantown and Pittsburg Railroad, West Virginia Railroad | - | |
| West Virginia Northern Railroad | WVN | 1899 | 1991 | N/A | Continued as a tourist railroad until 1999 | |
| West Virginia and Pittsburg Railroad | B&O | 1890 | 1912 | Baltimore and Ohio Railroad | - | |
| West Virginia Short Line Railroad | B&O | 1895 | 1912 | Baltimore and Ohio Railroad | - | |
| West Virginia South Western Railroad | N&W | 1902 | 1909 | Norfolk and Western Railway | - | |
| West Virginia and Southern Railroad | 1897 | N/A | - | |||
| WV Southern Railway | WVSR | 2003 | 2005 | R.J. Corman Railroad/West Virginia Line | - | |
| West Virginia Southern Railway | 1895 | 1897 | West Virginia and Southern Railroad | - | ||
| Western Maryland Railroad | WM | 1905 | 1909 | Western Maryland Railway | - | |
| Western Maryland Railway | WM | WM | 1909 | 1989 | CSX Transportation | - |
| Weston and Buckhannon Railroad | B&O | 1882 | 1890 | Clarksburg, Weston and Midland Railroad | - | |
| Weston and Centreville Railroad | B&O | 1882 | 1882 | Weston and Buckhannon Railroad | - | |
| Weston and Elk River Railroad | B&O | 1889 | 1889 | Clarksburg, Weston and Midland Railroad | - | |
| Weston and West Fork Railroad | B&O | 1875 | 1889 | Clarksburg, Weston and Midland Railroad | - | |
| Wheeling Bridge and Terminal Railway | PRR | 1889 | 1900 | Wheeling Terminal Railway | - | |
| Wheeling and Harrisburg Railway | PRR | 1882 | 1889 | Wheeling Bridge and Terminal Railway | - | |
| Wheeling and Lake Erie Railroad | NKP | 1899 | 1916 | Wheeling and Lake Erie Railway | - | |
| Wheeling and Lake Erie Railway | NKP | 1890 | 1899 | Wheeling and Lake Erie Railroad | - | |
| Wheeling and Lake Erie Railway | W&LE, WLE | NKP | 1916 | 1949 | New York, Chicago and St. Louis Railroad | - |
| Wheeling, Parkersburg and Charleston Railway | B&O | 1881 | 1882 | Ohio River Railroad | - | |
| Wheeling, Pittsburgh and Baltimore Railroad | B&O | 1872 | - | |||
| Wheeling Terminal Railway | PRR | 1900 | 1954 | Penndel Company | - | |
| White Oak Railway | C&O, N&W | 1905 | 1917 | Chesapeake and Ohio Railway, Virginian Railway | - | |
| White Sulphur and Huntersville Railroad | 1912 | N/A | - | |||
| Williamson and Pond Creek Railroad | N&W | 1912 | 1936 | Norfolk and Western Railway | - | |
| Williamsport, Nessle and Martinsburg Railway | WM | 1913 | 1937 | Western Maryland Railway | - | |
| Winchester and Potomac Railroad | B&O | 1831 | 1988 | CSX Transportation | - | |
| Winchester and Wardensville Railroad | 1929 | 1934 | N/A | - | ||
| Winchester and Western Railroad | 1916 | 1930 | Winchester and Wardensville Railroad | - | ||
| Winding Gulf Railroad | 1906 | N/A | - | |||
| Winifrede Railroad | WNFR | 1881 | 1987 | Kanawha Rail Corporation | - |
;Electric
- Appalachian Power Company
- Charleston–Dunbar Traction Company
- Charleston Interurban Railroad
- City Railway
- East Liverpool Traction and Light Company
- Grafton Light and Power Company
- Kanawha Traction and Electric Company
- Lewisburg and Ronceverte Electric Railway
- Monongahela Valley Traction Company
- Morgantown and Pittsburgh Railway
- Morgantown and Wheeling Railway
- Newell Bridge and Railway Company
- Ohio Valley Electric Railway
- Pan Handle Traction Company
- Parkersburg and Ohio Valley Electric Railway
- Princeton Power Company
- South Morgantown Traction Company
- Steubenville, East Liverpool and Beaver Valley Traction Company
- Steubenville, Wellsburg and Weirton Railway
- Tyler Traction Company
- Union Traction Company
- Wellsburg, Bethany and Washington Railway
- West Virginia Traction and Electric Company
- Wheeling and Elm Grove Railway
- Wheeling Traction Company