Wikipedia:WikiProject Trains/ICC valuations/Kanawha Central Railway

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The railroad of The Kanawha Central Railway Company, hereinafter called the carrier, is a single-track, standard-gage, steam railroad, located in the western part of West Virginia. The main line extends southeasterly from Brounland to Knickerbocker, a distance of 4.811 miles. The carrier also owns 1.402 miles of yard tracks and sidings. Its road thus embraces 6.213 miles of all tracks owned and used. The carrier has trackage rights over about 400 feet of track of The Chesapeake and Ohio Railway Company at Brounland, W. Va. The carrier is an industrial railroad. It is controlled by the Black Band Consolidated Coal Company, one of the principal industries served.

CORPORATE HISTORY

The carrier was incorporated January 22, 1906, under general laws of West Virginia for the purpose of acquiring and operating a railroad in intrastate traffic, principally for transportation of coal from mines on the road to a connection with the tracks of The Chesapeake and Ohio Railway Company at Brounland, W. Va. It was found to be an interstate carrier in 1922, 78 I.C.C. 429.

DEVELOPMENT OF FIXED PHYSICAL PROPERTY

The railroad was constructed in 1905 by the Emmons Tract Coal Company as an industrial road, and was acquired by purchase March 2, 1906.

HISTORY OF CORPORATE FINANCING