Pennsylvania Railroad, Shire Oaks Car Shop, Washington, Pa.
Date:
ca. 1920-1930
Description:
The workers at the Shire Oaks car shop in Washington, Pa. pose behind the rails: on the sign and a cart in the middle of the group has a few safety slogans for workers written.
Listening to Minister Eddie Martin Preach, East Yard Shop Track, Hinton, W. Va.
Date:
ca. 1948
Description:
L to R: Tim Young; Clyde Shorter; Onva Gill; Kyle Davis; Ed Harris; unidentified; Joe Meadows; Ote Gill; Carl Edwards; Charlie Harvey; Raymond Shorter; A. C. Via; Clifford Harvey; Emmett Shirley; Charles Turner; Erskine Richmond; Bob Richmond; Basil Martin; Noah Richmond; Roy Snidow; Bill Richards; Howard Harford; Dempsey Plumley; Talmadge Reed; Paul York; Jack Breen; Jake Bennett; Wendell Bowles; Delmer Thurman Parker; Dewey Lester
Group Portrait of Employees With Engine No. 518, Southern W. Va.
Date:
ca.1909
Description:
Postcard photograph of probably a Kanawha and Michigan Railroad train and workers with Engine No. 518. Identified are Brakeman Arthur Ratliff, 2nd from the left and Engineer Fred B. Secrest, 4th from the left.
A group of unidentified workers and what appears to be their African-American cook gather for a picture. Behind them are Chesapeake and Ohio Railway cars.
'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.'
