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'Built by the Ensign Manufacturing Co. in Huntington, W. Va. (Cabell County) April 19, 1899. It is important to note that both the Southern Pacific and Chesapeake and Ohio were owned by Collis P. Huntington and seeing railroad equipment to be used out West but built in Huntington was not uncommon.'

1. Morgan's Lousiana and Texas--Southern Pacific Boxcar 30401

IDNO:
025646
Title:
Morgan's Lousiana and Texas--Southern Pacific Boxcar 30401
Description:
'Built by the Ensign Manufacturing Co. in Huntington, W. Va. (Cabell County) April 19, 1899. It is important to note that both the Southern Pacific and Chesapeake and Ohio were owned by Collis P. Huntington and seeing railroad equipment to be used out West but built in Huntington was not uncommon.'
'This car has its W. Va. connection because it was built by the Ensign Manufacturing Company in Huntington. The Eastern Kentucky Railroad existed from 1865 until 1933 and ran from Riverton Greenup Ky. through Grayson County Ky. to Webbville Lawrence County Ky. on the Wayne County West Virginia border.'

2. Eastern Kentucky Railroad No. 53

IDNO:
025647
Title:
Eastern Kentucky Railroad No. 53
Description:
'This car has its W. Va. connection because it was built by the Ensign Manufacturing Company in Huntington. The Eastern Kentucky Railroad existed from 1865 until 1933 and ran from Riverton Greenup Ky. through Grayson County Ky. to Webbville Lawrence County Ky. on the Wayne County West Virginia border.'
Ely Thomas Lumber Company would have transferred its freight to the Nicholas, Fayette & Greenbrier, a short lived railroad that ran from Swiss, Nicholas County to Meadow Creek, Fayette County. The NF&G was jointly owned by the New York Central and Chesapeake & Ohio Railroads.'

3. Locomotive for Ely Thomas Lumber Company of Fenwick, Nicholas County, W. Va.

IDNO:
025648
Title:
Locomotive for Ely Thomas Lumber Company of Fenwick, Nicholas County, W. Va.
Description:
Ely Thomas Lumber Company would have transferred its freight to the Nicholas, Fayette & Greenbrier, a short lived railroad that ran from Swiss, Nicholas County to Meadow Creek, Fayette County. The NF&G was jointly owned by the New York Central and Chesapeake & Ohio Railroads.'
'This later became parts of both the Western Maryland and Chesapeake & Ohio Railroads (Pocahontas County.)'

4. Greenbrier, Cheat, and Elk Railroad Locomotive and Crew at Water Tank in Spruce, W. Va.

IDNO:
025657
Title:
Greenbrier, Cheat, and Elk Railroad Locomotive and Crew at Water Tank in Spruce, W. Va.
Description:
'This later became parts of both the Western Maryland and Chesapeake & Ohio Railroads (Pocahontas County.)'
'Cabell County just after the NS/CSX takeover in 1999. No. 402

5. Conrail - F Unit at the Huntington Locomotive Shops

IDNO:
025661
Title:
Conrail - F Unit at the Huntington Locomotive Shops
Date:
ca. 1999
Description:
'Cabell County just after the NS/CSX takeover in 1999. No. 402
Train crossing a river on the Cass Scenic Railroad in West Virginia.

6. Shay No. 11, Cass Scenic Railroad, Pocahontas County, W.Va.

IDNO:
025691
Title:
Shay No. 11, Cass Scenic Railroad, Pocahontas County, W.Va.
Date:
2000/08/04
Description:
Train crossing a river on the Cass Scenic Railroad in West Virginia.
'Black and white print of Cass Scenic Shay #11 is posing along with Bret Evanich who is standing on the Collis P. Huntington Chapter, National Railway Historical Society of Huntington, WV's handcar. Photo by Herbert Parsons.'

7. Shay No. 11, Cass Scenic Railroad, Cass, W.Va.

IDNO:
025692
Title:
Shay No. 11, Cass Scenic Railroad, Cass, W.Va.
Date:
2000/05
Description:
'Black and white print of Cass Scenic Shay #11 is posing along with Bret Evanich who is standing on the Collis P. Huntington Chapter, National Railway Historical Society of Huntington, WV's handcar. Photo by Herbert Parsons.'
'Webster and Nicholas Counties. Year unknown, but suspected in the mid-nineteen hundreds.'

8. Cherry River Boom and Lumber Company Train Wreck

IDNO:
025747
Title:
Cherry River Boom and Lumber Company Train Wreck
Description:
'Webster and Nicholas Counties. Year unknown, but suspected in the mid-nineteen hundreds.'
On the Cabin Creek branch in Kanawha County. Railroad Crane Lifting a Derailed Coal Car.

9. Coal Train Wreck at Decota, W.Va.

IDNO:
025748
Title:
Coal Train Wreck at Decota, W.Va.
Date:
ca. 1940
Description:
On the Cabin Creek branch in Kanawha County. Railroad Crane Lifting a Derailed Coal Car.
'Engine terminal, round house, coaling station, water thanks, machine shops, turntable and office building ca. 1950. The Guyan river runs between the shops and W. Va. Highway 10. This picture was produced just before the diesel came online with the C&O. All the shops are visible except the lower end where the pittracks existed.'

10. Bird's Eye View of Railroad Yard at Peach Creek, Logan County, W. Va.

IDNO:
025756
Title:
Bird's Eye View of Railroad Yard at Peach Creek, Logan County, W. Va.
Date:
ca. 1950
Description:
'Engine terminal, round house, coaling station, water thanks, machine shops, turntable and office building ca. 1950. The Guyan river runs between the shops and W. Va. Highway 10. This picture was produced just before the diesel came online with the C&O. All the shops are visible except the lower end where the pittracks existed.'
'This was a huge marshalling yard for the New River Region of the C&O railroad. This picture is listed as CSX because when the picture was taken on June of 2001, CSX that owns the yards at Thurmond. This is slated to become part of the New River National River...Town.'

11. CSX-Coaling Tower, Thurmond, W. Va. (Fayette County)

IDNO:
025757
Title:
CSX-Coaling Tower, Thurmond, W. Va. (Fayette County)
Description:
'This was a huge marshalling yard for the New River Region of the C&O railroad. This picture is listed as CSX because when the picture was taken on June of 2001, CSX that owns the yards at Thurmond. This is slated to become part of the New River National River...Town.'
'C.& O. gas-electric motor car 9054 & trailer on train no. 50 on Huntington-Logan line at Barboursville, W. Va.. In Cabell County, southeast leg of Wye-Gas Electrics became the railroads answer for passenger-runs generated low income according to railroads but required by the interstate commerce commission.'

12. Chesapeake and Ohio Gas-Electric Motor Car No. 9054, Barboursville, W. Va.

IDNO:
025814
Title:
Chesapeake and Ohio Gas-Electric Motor Car No. 9054, Barboursville, W. Va.
Date:
1959/04
Description:
'C.& O. gas-electric motor car 9054 & trailer on train no. 50 on Huntington-Logan line at Barboursville, W. Va.. In Cabell County, southeast leg of Wye-Gas Electrics became the railroads answer for passenger-runs generated low income according to railroads but required by the interstate commerce commission.'