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Unidentified workers, part a team of engineers, survey for a tunnel, as two men stand inside an opening in the rocks.

1. Surveying for Ohio Extension of Norfolk and Western Railroad on Tug Fork River, W. Va.

The new extension was part of the Norfolk & Western Railroad.

2. Tunnel No. One of Ohio Extension, Tug Fork River District, W. Va.

Two unidentified individuals are standing on the middle pier and two are sitting on the bridge and a hand-car.

3. Bridge 17 of Ohio Extension of Norfolk & Western Railroad, Tug Fork District, W. Va.

Part of the new Ohio extension on the Norfolk & Western Railroad.

4. Matecury Trestle Railroad Bridge, Tug Fork River District, W. Va.

View from inside the tunnel, which was craved out of the mountain, looking out, down the track.

5. Tunnel No. 4 of Ohio Extension, Norfolk & Western Railroad, Tug Fork District, W. Va.

A locomotive, pulling flat cars rolls over  Bridge No. 20. Three unidentified people are standing on the middle pier.

6. Bridge No. 20 on Ohio Extension of Norfolk & Western Railroad, Tug Fork District, W. Va.

No. 5, Sec. 24, part of the Ohio Extension of the Norfolk & Western Railroad.

7. West End of Tunnel Under Construction, Tug Fork River District, W. Va.

Unidentified workers use a pulley to move huge blocks of stone during the building of a bridge on the Norfolk and Western Railroad.

8. Construction of Abutment on Ohio Extension, Tug Fork District, W. Va.

Several unidentified people stand near an abutment of a new bridge during the construction of the Ohio extension of the Norfolk & Western Railroad.

9. Railroad Trestle Bridge Under Construction, Tug Fork District, W. Va.

Two unidentified men stand under a partially built trestle bridge during the construction of the Ohio extension of the Norfolk & Western Railroad.

10. Ground View of Trestle Bridge Under Construction, Tug Fork District, W. Va.

Two unidentified men stand on new bridge abutment during the construction of the Ohio extension of the Norfolk & Western Railroad.

11. Newly Constructed Railroad Bridge Abutments, Tug Fork District, W. Va.

Unidentified workers stand among cut stones used in the construction of bridge abutments (such as one in the background). The poles in the photograph are part of the pulley used to place the stones.

12. West Abutment, Bridge #37, Ohio Extension: Norfolk & Western Railroad, Tug Fork District, W. Va.