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A train traveling through fields. 'Railroads were the principal way that West Virginians traveled in the early twentieth century.  The Little Kanawha Railroad was built in 1893 and abandoned in 1933.'

1. Train Passing through Wirt County, W. Va.

This view of Elizabeth Station, now the county seat of Wirt County, W. Va., shows several men on the porch of the Adams Express Company depot on the Little Kanawha Railroad. Two of the men are labeled as J. Parsons and R. Springston.

2. Elizabeth Station, W. Va.

Two men are standing by the tracks of the Little Kanawha Railroad, which follows the Little Kanawha River through Wirt and Wood Counties.

3. Big Ripple on the Little Kanawha River, Wirt County, W. Va.