The West Virginia Institute of Technology’s original campus in Montgomery, West Virginia closed in 2016-17. Portions of the campus are used by a local community and technical college while others are abandoned.
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The Glen Rogers Branch of the Virginian Railway, now inactive, spans 15 miles from the former mainline at Pierpont to Glen Rogers, West Virginia.
Mullens, located along the Guyandotte River in Wyoming County, West Virginia, was the commercial center of the Winding Gulf coalfield.
The Itmann Company Store and Office was developed by the Pocahontas Fuel Company for their mines in Wyoming County, West Virginia.
Williamson Memorial Hospital, once an operational medical facility, has now been repurposed into an event destination in Williamson, West Virginia.
Lynnside is the disused Greek Revival residence of the influential Lewis family in Greenbrier County, West Virginia.
Thurmond is a storied town located along the New River in Fayette County, West Virginia. It was once the hub of local operations for the Chesapeake & Ohio Railway and the center of commerce.
Laurel Creek, located between the Greenwood and Backus Mountains in Fayette County, West Virginia, was home to numerous coal mines and camps.
The McKendree Hospital complex is a former state-operated miner hospital along the New River in West Virginia.
Thayer is a former coal camp built by the Empriam Creek Coal & Coke Company along the New River in West Virginia.
The Mill Creek Tunnel is an abandoned tunnel along the Louisville & Nashville Railroad’s “Short Line” in Carroll County, Kentucky.
The Norfolk & Western Railroad (N&W) Twelvepole Line was part of the original alignment of the N&W between Lenore, West Virginia and Ohio. It was replaced by the 59-mile Big Sandy Low-Grade Line through Mingo and Wayne counties.
The Escanaba Traction Railroad is a former interurban that connected the communities of Escanaba and Gladstone, Michigan.
The Chesapeake & Ohio Railroad Gauley Branch connected the C&O’s mainline at Gauley Junction, West Virginia to a coal mine at Greendale. Connections were later made to the Kanawha & Michigan Railroad, Kanawha & West Virginia Railroad, and the Nicholas, Fayette & Greenbrier Railway, transforming the obscure line into a busy spur for much of the 20th century.