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The railroad of the Strouds Creek and Muddlety Railroad Company, hereinafter called the carrier, is a single-track, standard-gage, steam railroad, located in southeastern West Virginia. The main line extends from Allingdale, in a general northwesterly direction, to Delphi, a distance of 8.437 miles. The carrier also owns 2.474 miles of yard tracks and sidings. Its road thus embraces 10.911 miles of all tracks owned and used. In addition to its owned property, the carrier leases from The Birch Valley Lumber Company certain shop buildings located at Tioga, W. Va., one motor car and all of its equipment. The carrier grants trackage rights to The Birch Valley Lumber Company for the operation of log trains between Tioga and Delphi, W. Va., a distance of about 2 miles. The carrier uses jointly with the Baltimore and Ohio Rail Road Company the latter's station facilities at Allingdale, W. Va. The carrier is an industrial railroad. It is controlled by the Tioga Lumber Company. The road serves principally as an outlet for the timber of The Birch Valley Lumber Company, a corporation which purchased the timber property formerly owned by the Tioga Lumber Company.


CORPORATE HISTORY

The carrier was incorporated June 14, 1904, under general laws of West Virginia, for the purpose of building a railroad from a point [?]