SUBMARINE RAILROADING IN WEST VIRGINIA.
- Resource Type
- Article
- Authors
- Byer, Alan
- Source
- Trains; Sep2012, Vol. 72 Issue 9, p44-49, 6p
- Subject
- RAILROADS
RIVERS
STREAMFLOW velocity
RAINFALL
- Language
- ISSN
- 00410934
The article discusses the pugnacity of Buckhannon river during torrential rainfall and how it affects the Beech Mountain Railroad in West Virginias Upshur and Randolph counties. It states that the Left Fork of the Buckhannon River can quickly become a raging, muddy torrent that overflows its banks and sweeps everything before it. The railroads were often replaced. Submarine crossing worked better but the culverts filled with silt and the highest water levels still washed out the crossing.