The following railroads operate in the U.S. state of West Virginia. Common freight carriers Appalachian and Ohio Railroad (AO) Beech Mountain Railroad (BEEM) CSX Transportation (CSXT) Durbin and Greenbrier Valley Railroad (DGVR) operates Durbin Railroad and West Virginia Central Railroad (WVC) Elk River Railroad (ELKR) Kanawha River Railroad (KNWA) Norfolk Southern Railway (NS) R.J. Corman Railroad/West Virginia Line (RJCV) South Branch Valley Railroad (SBVR) Wheeling and Lake Erie Railway (WE) Winchester and Western Railroad (WW) Private freight carriers Little Kanawha River Rail, Inc. (LKRR) Short Line Services operates Big Eagle Rail, LLC, lessor of Kanawha Rail Corporation Kanawha River Terminal Railroad (KRT) Passenger carriers Amtrak (AMTK) Cass Scenic Railroad Durbin and Greenbrier Valley Railroad MARC Potomac Eagle Scenic Railroad South Branch Valley Railroad Defunct railroads 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 Notes West Virginia Railroads