West Virginia Night Express

The West Virginia Night Express (also sometimes called the Wheeling Night Express) was an American named train of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad (B&O) on its route between Chicago, Illinois and Wheeling, West Virginia, with major station stops in Willard and Newark, Ohio.

[1] During World War II, the West Virginia Night Express was consolidated with Train No.

9, the Pittsburgh-Chicago Express on the western end of the run from the junction at Willard, Ohio to Chicago.

In 1946, the West Virginia Night Express resumed independent operation from Willard to Chicago.

In 1947, the eastbound West Virginia Night Express, Train # 46 operated on the following schedule (departure times at principal stops shown): In the 1940s, the eastbound West Virginia Night Express consisted of two or three head-ended cars, an RPO baggage car, a coach and a sleeper.