Lima 2563/1912 at Shaw, WV for Deep Run Coal Company. (To be flooded over by waters of the Bloominton Dam on the Potomac River now being built by the Army Corps of Engineers. 10/21/71)
R. O. Speeders on Sunday Outing in Spruce Millyard.
Date:
undated
Description:
"Doc" Hannah on first speeder; Blackhurst; Long before cycling grew to widespread popularity, company officials and doctors used 'speeders' in conducting business. They were also handy means of seeing the wonderful mountain scenery on Cheat Mountain. Hannah, Va.
Rod Engine of the Otter Creek Boom & Lumber Company Log Train
Date:
undated
Description:
Portrait of Lumber Workers on and beside a train. On Train-L-R 1.- 2.- On Ground-L-R 1. Ernest C. Sine 2.- 3.-; O. Homer Floyd Fansler, Hendricks, W.Va.
L. to R.: Leonard Long, Charles Queen, Kenneth Caplinger, Walter "Pop" Good, Robert Cassell, Percy F. "Bus" Long (Wheeling), Ivan Clarkson, Clyde Galford, Kyle "Catty" Neighbors; Cass, W. Va.
From Austin J. Sharp, Huntersville, W.Va. "Made on Little River, which is near Bartow, and is commonly known as the east prong of Greenbrier River all of which lays in Pocahontas County, W.Va."
GC and E Leatherwood Creek branch; front: Adam J. Hamrick; rear: Judd Wolfram, Webster Co. Extension Agent; note wall built to support railroad; note, also, sway in tracks just to rear of speeders.
Mallet Locomotive No. 752 Taking Water at Ronceverte, W. Va.
Date:
ca. 1911
Description:
This was the first Mallet locomotive to come up the C and O Greenbrier Division; Notice the carbon arc light with globe suspended above pole behind engine cab. This picture was taken several years after the first run was made in 1905.
The Glady and Alpena R.R. between Gladwin in Tucker Co. and Alpena in Randolph Co., ca. 1910. Ths was a lumber road built for the purpose of removing logs, lumber, tanning bark, and pulpwood. O. Homer Floyd Fansler, Hendricks, W.V.
Twin Bridges, Cheat River; Third from left Carl Bradley - Engineer; P.E. Percy/Lima Locomotive Works; Lima "Shay" Shop No. 754 (1903; W.Va. Spruce Lumber Co. and/ or Greenbrier and Elk River #3; TKA 65 ton
'Picture was taken from the grade school hill. K of P Building No. 1. Advocate Building No. 2. O. Homer Floyd Fansler, Hendricks, W. Va.' is written on the back of the photo.
West Virginia and Pittsburgh Passenger Train, Tucker County, W. Va.
Date:
ca. 1889
Description:
'Passenger train on the W. Va. and Pittsburgh Railroad on the grade between Hendricks and Thomas in Tucker County. This became a B. & O. branch. O. Homer Floyd Fansler.'
O. M. Wilson, 6th from left in front row, with mustache; Marty P. Helmick 2nd from left, front row; Harman Kelly 1st on left, last row. Identified by Lewis Kelly; O. Homer Floyd Fansler, Hendricks, W.V.
From Austin J. Sharp, Huntersville, West Virginia. 'Made on Little River which commonly known as the East Fork of Greenbrier River, Pocahontas County, West Virginia.'
Bald Knob Trains: 2nd Car Brakeman, Robert Long; Conductor, Gearold Cassoll; Standing on rear platform: Ken Caplinger; Cab of No. 7, Artie Barkley; On ground, right foreground, "Doc" Carlson; photograph from John P. Killorah, Promotion Officer, WV State Parks, Chas, WV 25305.
Pounding the Last Spike In the Bald Knob Extension Cass Scenic Railroad
Date:
1968/05/25
Description:
Portrait of man in hardhat pounding the last spike in the Bald Knob extension of Cass Scenic R.R.; photograph from John P. Killoran, Promotion Officer, WV State Parks, Charleston, WV 25305.
Locomotive and passenger cars; Walter Good, conductor, on left side with hand on walkway chain; P.F. "Bus" Long, C&O station agent, to Walter's right, also with hand on chain; photograph from Richard Carter, N. White Hall Rd., Norristown P.O. 3 P.A.
Cheat Mountain Cass, West Virginia; Standing: Sam Harman, Cook; looking toward camera: Alfred Higgins; first on left: Russell "Poppy" Taylor; seventh on left: Howard Barb; third on right: Lester Hevaner
Starting up Shavers Fork (Shay in woods at end of tracks); Walter Good 'Bluejay' Tumblin on flatcar (maybe not Walter Good - maybe Barney Showalter); D.D. Brown Collection.
Looking toward Spruce with Shavers Fork on the left. Left to Right 1. Page McCloud (killed 1/25/23 at Sugar Grove), 2. not identified, 3. not identified, 4. not identified, 5. Piney Williams, Engineer, 6. Fireman; Ready to head down the steep mountain to Cass, Shay no. 11 and crew pause at Spruce water tower in 1916. This engine was the biggest engine on the R.R. until the purchase of # 12 in 1921.
Near Camp 24 on Cheat Mountain, Cass, W. Va. Grover and Saul Starcher; Horse teams in woods. In the glory years of logging on Cheat Mountain, 125 teams of horses were used to bring logs down to the landings where they were loaded onto flat cars for the trip to Cass. Credit P.V. Bagdon Collection
