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Looking at the brick building from across the railroad tracks.

25. MX Cabin in Hinton, W. Va.

IDNO:
048608
Title:
MX Cabin in Hinton, W. Va.
Date:
1987
Description:
Looking at the brick building from across the railroad tracks.
Roy Shrewsbury is pictured by the railroad tracks. An old storeroom is pictured in the background.

26. Machinist Outside Mallet House, Hinton, W. Va.

IDNO:
048609
Title:
Machinist Outside Mallet House, Hinton, W. Va.
Date:
1948
Description:
Roy Shrewsbury is pictured by the railroad tracks. An old storeroom is pictured in the background.
A train car reads, "Chesapeake & Ohio".

27. C. & O. Train Passing through Hinton, W. Va.

IDNO:
048610
Title:
C. & O. Train Passing through Hinton, W. Va.
Date:
ca. 1940
Description:
A train car reads, "Chesapeake & Ohio".
Mrs. E. M. Marable stands outside the cabin beside the railroad tracks.

28. C. & O. Operator Outside MX Cabin, Hinton, W. Va.

IDNO:
048611
Title:
C. & O. Operator Outside MX Cabin, Hinton, W. Va.
Date:
1943/07
Description:
Mrs. E. M. Marable stands outside the cabin beside the railroad tracks.
The C. & O. train idles in the engine terminal ready to embark.

29. Train No. 1621 Ready to Head Eastbound on Tracks in Front of Mallet House, Hinton, W. Va.

IDNO:
048612
Title:
Train No. 1621 Ready to Head Eastbound on Tracks in Front of Mallet House, Hinton, W. Va.
Date:
1947
Description:
The C. & O. train idles in the engine terminal ready to embark.
In the center is Oce Bobbitt. To the right is Bill Echols. The man on the left is unidentified.

30. Early C. & O. Conductors in Hinton, W. Va.

IDNO:
048613
Title:
Early C. & O. Conductors in Hinton, W. Va.
Date:
ca. 1890
Description:
In the center is Oce Bobbitt. To the right is Bill Echols. The man on the left is unidentified.
George D. Elmore, who died in 1941, is pictured with his spouse.

31. New River Conductor with Wife at Indian Lake, Ny.

IDNO:
048617
Title:
New River Conductor with Wife at Indian Lake, Ny.
Date:
1936/08
Description:
George D. Elmore, who died in 1941, is pictured with his spouse.
F. G. "Happy" Elmore, pensioned in 1945 and later died in 1954, is pictured holding his little girl.

32. Allegheny Conductor and Daughter, Summers County, W. Va.

IDNO:
048618
Title:
Allegheny Conductor and Daughter, Summers County, W. Va.
Date:
1945
Description:
F. G. "Happy" Elmore, pensioned in 1945 and later died in 1954, is pictured holding his little girl.
Conductor O. J. Hellems, who died October 5, 1973, and sheet metal worker L. M. Reid are pictured.

33. Railroad Employees Sitting on Store Porch, Hinton, W. Va.

IDNO:
048619
Title:
Railroad Employees Sitting on Store Porch, Hinton, W. Va.
Date:
undated
Description:
Conductor O. J. Hellems, who died October 5, 1973, and sheet metal worker L. M. Reid are pictured.
Photo description reads, "2-8-8-2 H-7 Mallet used on coal train between Hinton (Summers County, W. Va.) and Handley (Kanawha County, W. Va.), and between Hinton and Clifton Forge (Alleghany County, Va.) from 1924 until replace by the 2-66-6 H 8's during 1940."

34. Mallet Locomotive Pulling Coal Train through Southeastern West Virginia to Western Virginia

IDNO:
048690
Title:
Mallet Locomotive Pulling Coal Train through Southeastern West Virginia to Western Virginia
Date:
undated
Description:
Photo description reads, "2-8-8-2 H-7 Mallet used on coal train between Hinton (Summers County, W. Va.) and Handley (Kanawha County, W. Va.), and between Hinton and Clifton Forge (Alleghany County, Va.) from 1924 until replace by the 2-66-6 H 8's during 1940."
Stoddard family pictured beside the turntable, which was 900 feet in circumference.

35. Locomotive No. 175 on Hinton Round House Turntable, Hinton, W. Va.

IDNO:
048692
Title:
Locomotive No. 175 on Hinton Round House Turntable, Hinton, W. Va.
Date:
ca. 1905
Description:
Stoddard family pictured beside the turntable, which was 900 feet in circumference.
Huntington was the president of the C. & O. Railway when the line moved, in 1972, into what would later become Hinton and Summers County, W. Va.Huntington purchased, for the railroad, all the land where the City of Hinton now stands at public auction. He later purchased from the railroad all the land that would not be used by the railroad.

36. Portrait of Collis P. Huntington, President of the Chesapeake & Ohio Railway

IDNO:
048700
Title:
Portrait of Collis P. Huntington, President of the Chesapeake & Ohio Railway
Date:
undated
Description:
Huntington was the president of the C. & O. Railway when the line moved, in 1972, into what would later become Hinton and Summers County, W. Va.Huntington purchased, for the railroad, all the land where the City of Hinton now stands at public auction. He later purchased from the railroad all the land that would not be used by the railroad.