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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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."
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.
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
Cass, W.Va. Pulp and Paper Co. Engine No. 2; Engineer Lewis Collins sitting on stump. Note the size of timber that was cut from pulpwood.; A.F. Burrell, Box 207, Cowen, WV
The wood of blight killed chestnut if used within five years is suitable for ties or lumber. Narrow and standard guage railroads constitute the farmers market for his tie timber.