Locomotive Passing Buckhorn Wall Along the Cheat River Near Rowlesburg, W. Va.
Description:
'This stupendous bit of masonry was one of the greatest achievements of early railroading. It was built as a retaining wall for the bed of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, by Benjamin H. Latrobe, along the Cheat River, near Rowlesburg, W. Va., enabling the railway to cling safely to the side of the mountain.'
Clement's Fountain and Buckhorn Wall along Baltimore and Ohio Railroad in Preston County, W. Va.
Date:
1883
Description:
An illustration depicting a scenery around the Clement's fountain in Buckhorn wall area; it is copied from J.G. Pangborn's Picturesque B. & O., Historical and Descriptive (Chicago, 1883), p. 275.
Great Kingwood Tunnel on the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, Kingwood, W. Va.
Description:
'View of Eastern end of the great Kingwood Tunnel, on the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, 260 miles from Baltimore, With its Stone Coping, Double Track, and Line of the formerly used Temporary Track over the Hill.'
Great Kingwood Tunnel on the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, Kingwood, W. Va.
Description:
'View of Eastern end of the great Kingwood Tunnel, on the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, 260 miles from Baltimore, With its Stone Coping, Double Track, and Line of the formerly used Temporary Track over the Hill.'
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Depot, Harper's Ferry, W. Va.
Description:
B. & O. Harper's Ferry Depot: shown here are buildings on each side of rail roads and a locomotive is coming into depot crossing a steel span bridge.
'Ben or B. Franklin, a character on a train ride which is narrated. Copied from "Picturesque B.& O., Historical and Descriptive (Chicago, 1883), by J. G. Pangborn, p. 23.'
'This picture taken at Chiefton by Ray Hinerman who was a telegraph operator. Charles E. Heskell, Mound Avenue is on the pilot. Bruce Traught, deceased is at his left. "Dutch" Homan on the other side of the pilot, now runs on the street cars. June Hoover, engineer, who is next to his, is deceased. Bill Shakelford is on the left of other track and Walter Summers, 623 State Street, is still on the B. & O., now an engineer.'