Loup Creek and Deepwater Railway
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Loup Creek and Deepwater Railway is a historic class III railroad that operated in West Virginia.
Founded by William Nelson Page in 1896, the LC&D was a logging railroad located in Fayette County. It extended from an interchange at Deepwater, West Virginia with the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway (C&O) on the south bank of the navigable Kanawha River 4 miles up a steep grade into the mountainous terrain southward, following the winding Loup Creek to reach a sawmill at Robson which was owned by the Loup Creek Estate. It was operated by the C&O under a verbal agreement.
In 1898, the name was changed to become the Deepwater Railway, and an extension was planned to reach nearby coal deposits in the general area of Glen Jean.
The Loup Creek and Deepwater Railway and the Deepwater Railway were predecessors of the Virginian Railway and Norfolk and Western Railway, and today form part of the Norfolk Southern Railway.
