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Side view of Georges Creek train engine and two crew members.

1. Locomotive Georges Creek Taken at Mt. Savage

A house along the railroad in Kerens, W.VA.

2. Kerens, W.Va.

Building of Davis and Elkins College, Elkins, Randolph County.

3. Davis and Elkins College, Elkins, W. Va.

M.P. Church located in Montrose, W.Va.

4. Methodist Protestant Church, Montrose, W. Va.

The ruins of the Hambleton Leather Company beside the Black Fork River in Hambleton, W. Va.

5. View of Black Fork River Showing the Ruin of the Hambleton Leather Company's Tannery, Hambleton, W. Va.

Rory Teter in his baseball uniform about 1914

6. Ball Player Rory Teter

This one story building erected on the site of Huffman's Store which burned in 1916, is still being used as a store by Harold Sites. Left to right: Hobe Smith, John Spitzer, Dave Teter.

7. Hobe Smith, John Spitzer, and Dave Teter in front of H. C. Huffman's Store

Engine No. 10 with crew in Cumberland, 1920.

8. Rod Engine No. 10

9. Customers and Employees in front of Kipp and Rodgers General Store in Whitmer, W. Va.

Whitmer from the northwest. The large three-story buildings are the Nydegger building and the Nethkin and Layman building

10. Bird's Eye View of Whitmer, W. Va.

The blades in the foreground and on the filing machine are for a double cut band saw, while the one suspended from the ceiling is for a single cut rig.

11. Horton Mill Filing Room, Horton, W. Va.

12. Men Working in Lumber Yard

13. Family Group in front of D.K. Teter's Star Restaurant, Whitmer, W. Va.

Right to left: Andrew Hedricks, Tom Workenbaker, Truman Nethkin, Lafe Troy, Smith Dugger, unidentified, Dr. Harper Judy (wearing bow tie), unidentified woodsman and bartender.

14. Nethkin and Layman's Saloon, Whitmer, W. Va.

Dry Fork Railroad shop building at Hendricks. - Courtesy of WVU Archives D. D. Brown collection.

15. Dry Fork Railroad Shop, Hendricks, W. Va.

16. Horton Presbyterian Church, Horton, W. Va.

Looking north on Railroad Avenue. The first four buildings are still in use.

17. Railroad Avenue, Whitmer, W. Va.

18. Lumber Yard, Whitmer, W. Va.

Laneville, with the Dry Fork Company mill in the foreground. Note the footbridge across Red Creek (at center of picture), connecting the mill with the town.

19. Bird's Eye View of Laneville, W. Va.

20. Central West Virginia and Southern Trolley Car No. 9

21. Whitmer Cornet Band, Whitmer, W. Va.

22. Logging Crew With Axes Posed By Tree, W. Va.

Dr. Thomas B. Crittenden- Courtesy Russel White

23. Portrait of Dr. Thomas B. Crittenden, Whitmer, W. Va.

24. Economy Up Dry Fork, W. Va.

25. Lumber Mill, Yard and Log Pond, W. Va.

26. Commercial Hotel, W. Va.

27. Portrait of a Young Boy, W. Va.

28. Train Station, W. Va.

29. Shay Locomotive No. 8 and Crew

30. Group Portrait, W. Va.

31. Group Portrait of Bero Boys Baseball Team, W. Va.

32. The Hotel De Armit, W. Va

33. Horton to Whitmer, W. Va.

Students and a teacher in a classroom.

34. Class Photo Unidentified School

The town of Horton, W. Va.

35. Horton, W. Va.

A distant view of Horton, W.VA. in the early 1900's.  A log pond in the foreground and lumber mill are visible.

36. Horton, W. VA.

School House at Whitmer Dry Forks Region, built in Fall 1895-1896. The school house opened in February 1896. For more information, please see page 55 of "Goin' Up Gandy."

37. School House at Whitmer Dry Fork Region

Main Street of Horton, W.Va. Train tracks visible in foreground.

38. Main Street, Horton, W. Va.

Scenery along the Western Maryland R.R. Train traveling toward Hambleton from Parsons at Watering Tank. Printed for F.S. Johnston Drug.

39. Train Nearing Hambelton From Parsons at Watering Tank

40. Etching of a Logging Plant at Horton and Whitmer, W. Va.

Train crew and other men stand in front of an engine.

41. Shay Locomotive and Crew

Birdseye view of logging town and train tracks.

42. Logging Town

43. Logs in River Next to Railroad

Town is possibly Whitmer, W. Va.

44. Logging and Lumbering Town

45. Wrecked Railroad Flat Car

Condon Lane Boom and Lumber Company's Mill at Horton, W.Va.  Lumber piles alongside railroad tracks.

46. Condon Lane Boom and Lumber Company's Mill at Horton, W.Va.

47. Sawmill Crew

A distant view of Horton, W.VA. Whitmer and Horton were two lumbering towns that existed side-by-side.

48. View of Horton, W.VA.

Locomotive on tracks with crew posing on the engine.

49. Locomotive No. 2 and Crew

Town with a train track running in the middle of it.  Area has many mud puddles.

50. Lumber Town

51. Wood Frame House in a Lumbering Town

Planing Mill with many train tracks coming from it in Horton, W.Va.

52. Planing Mill, Horton, W. Va.

Shay locomotive and derrick car on tracks above derailed train engine.  Crew posing on engine.

53. Logging Train Derailment

Birdseye view of Whitmer and Horton, W.Va.

54. Whitmer and Horton, W. Va.

55. Etching of the Glen Teter House

56. Log Pond and Pulp Mill, Spruce, W. Va.

Man riding a speeder on a train track.

57. Riding a Speeder

Men standing on top of logs on a flat car or gondolas?  Wildell, W.Va.

58. Loading Logs on Railroad Flat Car

Side view of a train engine and crew members standing in front of it.

59. Shay Locomotive of the Greenbrier and Elk River Railroad

People waiting for arriving trains at the Western Maryland Depot, Elkins, W.Va.

60. Western Maryland Railroad Depot, Elkins, W. Va.

Engine No. 900 'Old Maude' on tracks.  Built in Lima for Wm., sold to next NW RR in 1910.

61. Engine No. 900 'Old Maude' on Tracks

Logging railroad with machinery on the track.

62. Logging Railroad

A close-up view of Shay Engine #10 and crew. Engineer is Vern Nelson.

63. Shay No. 10 and Crew

Western Maryland Railroad Engine No. 6 on tracks.  Bedr. Lima Date 4-1945, No. 3354 at Vindex, Md.  8-19-1946 to B&D Museum 9-9-1953.   Picture originally property of Clair E. Matheny, Elkins, W. Va.

64. Western Maryland Engine No. 6

Western Maryland Engine No. 6 with conductor.

65. Western Maryland Engine No. 6

Herman Teter (with pistol) and Virgil Layman playing gamblers after going to D.K. Teter's picture show about 1913.  Appears on p.6 of 'Goin' Up Gandy'.

66. Herman Teter and Virgil Layman Playing Gamblers

Group portrait of baseball players.

67. Italy Baseball Team Portrait

Shay locomotive traveling along tracks.

68. Shay Locomotive

Group of men standing next to and on top of a wrecked train.

69. Crew Inspects Wrecked Train

Western Maryland Engine 954, old engine used on the Hendricks.  Crew posed beside and on engine.

70. Western Maryland Engine No. 954 Used on the Hendricks with Crew

Etching of a logging train on a trestle.

71. Etching of a Logging Train

72. Family Group in front of a Small Store in a Lumber Town

View looking NW down Gandy Creek with Horton Mill of Spears Lumber Company in forground.  High Point at extreme rear is a peak of Rich Mt. (Haines Knob? of Gregg Knob?) mostly formed by Mauch Chunk Slope at left is mostly Greenbrier and Pocono but mill site and slope at right are Catskill.

73. Horton Mill of Spears Lumber Company

Climax train engine No. 2 pulling log carts.  Crew members standing on top of the logs and one sitting on top of the engine.

74. Engine No. 2 with Crew Hauling Logs

Lumbertown Character, Mose Caliahan.

75. Lumber Town Character, Mose Caliahan

Western Maryland train engine No. 513 built by Baldwin in 1905.

76. Western Maryland Engine No. 513 Built by Baldwin 1905

Three loggers stand beside a logging train.

77. Loggers and Log Train

Many logs floating in a river or pond.

78. Logs Floating in River or Log Pond

1800 train engine with crew member in the cabin.

79. Locomotive (1880 Engine)

Buildings beside a train track.

80. Scene in a Lumbering Town

Three crew members at the log slide at the lumber mill.

81. Logs at Lumber Mill

Men unloading logs into log pond at Horton, W.Va.

82. Unloading Logs at Horton, W.Va.

Crane and crew members putting a railroad car back on the track.

83. Lifting Railroad Car Back onto Track with a Crane and Crew

Train engine carrying a cart of logs.  Crew members pose for photograph.

84. Shay No. 6 Carrying Logs With Crew

Otter Creek Boom and lumber mill with piles of lumber in Hamilton, W. Va.

85. Otter Creek Boom & Lumber Company's Mill at Hamilton, West Virginia

Two engines of C and C railway pulling train.

86. C and C Railway Train

Crew workers standing with a train engine.

87. Shay No. 7 and Crew Near Lumber Mill

Condon-Lane Boom and Lumber Company mill and crew at Horton, W. Va.  Stacked lumber visible in the foreground.

88. Condon Lane Boom and Lumber Company Mill and Crew, Horton, W. Va.

Group portrait of loggers and their equipment in the woods.

89. Logging Crew Posed Among Cut Trees

90. Railroad Accident - Overturned Flat Car and Spilled Logs

Men sitting on wreckage below trestle.

91. Shay Wreck over a Trestle

View of entrance of the Methodist Episcopal Church in Whitmer, W. Va.

92. Methodist Episcopal Church, Whitmer, Randolph County, W. Va.

Western Maryland Engine 954, old engine used on the Hendricks.  Crew posed beside and on engine.

93. Western Maryland Engine No. 954 Used on the Hendricks with Crew

Train engine pulling part of a wrecked train.  Crew members standing on crane car.

94. Shay Locomotive Carrying Part of a Wrecked Engine

Engine hauling a string of flat cars piled with logs.

95. Logging Train Hauling a String of Flat Cars Piled With Logs

Western Maryland Railroad Depot in Parsons, W. Va.

96. Western Maryland Railroad Depot, Parsons, W. Va.