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

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

Young boy sitting in a wagon with town buildings behind him.

2. Young Boy in Wagon

Lumber mill in operation.

3. Lumber Mill, View of Operations

The town of Horton, W. Va.

4. Horton, W. Va.

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

Group portrait of a baseball team.

6. Baseball Team in a Lumber Town

Buildings beside a train track.

7. Scene in a Lumbering Town

Man riding a speeder on a train track.

8. Riding a Speeder

Western Maryland Railroad Depot in Parsons, W. Va.

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

Train engine on tracks moving past a railroad spill.

10. Shay Locomotive

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

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

Group portrait of baseball players.

12. Italy Baseball Team Portrait

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

Small town with a track running through it.  Many mud puddles are present.

14. Lumber Town

15. Etching of the Glen Teter House

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

16. Shay Locomotive and Crew

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

17. Locomotive Georges Creek Taken at Mt. Savage

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

18. Shay Locomotive Carrying Part of a Wrecked Engine

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

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

Crew workers standing with a train engine.

20. Shay No. 7 and Crew Near Lumber Mill

D.K. Teter's General Store offering fresh oysters.  Group assembled for portrait in front of store.

21. D.K. Teter's General Store

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

22. Logs at Lumber Mill

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

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

Students and a teacher in a classroom.

24. Class Photo Unidentified School

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

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

Birdseye view of Whitmer and Horton, W.Va.

26. Whitmer and Horton, W. Va.

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.

27. Horton Mill of Spears Lumber Company

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

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

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

29. Lumber Town

Logging railroad with machinery on the track.

30. Logging Railroad

Town is possibly Whitmer, W. Va.

31. Logging and Lumbering Town

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

32. Shay No. 6 Carrying Logs With Crew

33. Railroad Accident - Overturned Flat Car and Spilled Logs

1800 train engine with crew member in the cabin.

34. Locomotive (1880 Engine)

Lumbertown Character, Mose Caliahan.

35. Lumber Town Character, Mose Caliahan

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

36. Unloading Logs at Horton, W.Va.

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

37. Loading Logs on Railroad Flat Car

Train engine hauling logs.

38. Log Train Hauling Logs

39. Wrecked Railroad Flat Car

Birdseye view of logging town and train tracks.

40. Logging Town

41. Sawmill Crew

Men sitting on wreckage below trestle.

42. Shay Wreck over a Trestle

Storage area full of lumber.

43. Lumber Storage Sheds

Large Douglass Fir Log on a railroad cart.

44. Douglas Fir Log Western Washington

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

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

46. Planing Mill, Horton, W. Va.

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

47. Engine No. 2 with Crew Hauling Logs

48. Wood Frame House in a Lumbering Town

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

49. Main Street, Horton, W. Va.

Group portrait of loggers and their equipment in the woods.

50. Logging Crew Posed Among Cut Trees

Three loggers stand beside a logging train.

51. Loggers and Log Train

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

52. Shay Locomotive of the Greenbrier and Elk River Railroad

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'.

53. Herman Teter and Virgil Layman Playing Gamblers

Etching of a logging train on a trestle.

54. Etching of a Logging Train

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

55. Logging Train Derailment

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

56. Train Nearing Hambelton From Parsons at Watering Tank

Engine hauling a string of flat cars piled with logs.

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

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

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

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

59. View of Horton, W.VA.

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

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

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

61. Kerens, 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."

62. School House at Whitmer Dry Fork Region

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

63. Horton, W. VA.

View of Kerens, W. VA. including the I.O.O.F. Hall, W.M. Station, and BR&P 3276 car.  Lumber piles visible in the foreground.

64. Odd Fellows Hall, Western Maryland Railway Station and BR and P Car No. 3276 at Kerens, W.Va.

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

65. Shay No. 10 and Crew

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

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

Shay locomotive traveling along tracks.

67. Shay Locomotive

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.

68. Western Maryland Engine No. 6

Crowd viewing flood waters in town.

69. Flood in a Lumber Town

Locomotive on tracks with crew posing on the engine.

70. Locomotive No. 2 and Crew

Lumber docks in Horton, W. Va. next to train tracks and river.

71. Lumber Docks, Horton, W. Va

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

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

Logs spilled from rail car.

73. Logs Overboard

Many logs floating in a river or pond.

74. Logs Floating in River or Log Pond

Small boy pulling a wagon with two kids through the grass.

75. Boy Pulling a Wagon with Two Small Children

A small child pulling a wagon through the grass with another small child in it.

76. Small Child Pulling a Another Child Along in a Wagon

Two engines of C and C railway pulling train.

77. C and C Railway Train

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

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

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

Group portrait of logging crew with equipment standing next to felled tree.

80. Logging Crew and Felled Tree

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

81. Crew Inspects Wrecked Train

Engine No. 10 with crew in Cumberland, 1920.

82. Rod Engine No. 10

83. Logs in River Next to Railroad

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

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

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

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

Western Maryland Engine No. 6 with conductor.

86. Western Maryland Engine No. 6

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

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

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

88. 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.

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

90. Men Working in Lumber Yard

91. 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.

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

93. Horton Presbyterian Church, Horton, W. Va.

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

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

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

95. Railroad Avenue, Whitmer, W. Va.

96. Lumber Yard, Whitmer, W. Va.