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Chapter 20, page 224.

1. Horse Drawn Car 'Pioneer' of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad

'Westward Ho - Delivered to Va. Central July 1857.  Picture taken at Winifred Junction 1870.  Andy F. Southworth, engineer, 'Barney' Hagen, fireman, standing on left side of pilot with tallow pot in his hand.'

2. Westward Ho Locomotive at Winifred Junction.

'Eng No. 33 Placed on Road 1870.'

3. Locomotive No. 33 and Crew

'C. & O. R.R. Locomotive #32; Builder Name--Danforth Loco, Co. placed in service 1870.  Cylinders 16" x 24"; weight of engines with three gauges of water 61650 pounds;  Diam drivers 60:; dimensions of fire box 58 1/2 feet by 35 feet by 60 1/2 feet; No. of Flues 149; Diam of flues 2 inches; length of flues 11 feet, 1 inch; Diam of Boiler 46 7/8 feet; Service Passenger.'

4. Chesapeake and Ohio Locomotive No. 32

Established in 1866. The route of the line ran from the Baltimore & Ohio's Parkersburg Branch, the Northwestern Virginia Railroad, north, east and west. In practice it went to the oilfield at Volcano and no farther. In the photograph, the name "Maj. W. R. Sterling" is written across the engine.

5. Laurel Fork & Sand Hill Railroad Owned by William C. Stiles, Jr., William R. Sterling, J. N. Camden, Samuel D. Karns, and Austin Gunnison

Railroad at Grafton, P. Jennings, engineer, Jas. Jennings, stoker.

6. Engine 400 and Crew at Grafton, W. Va.