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William Warden began photographing logging railroads in West Virginia in 1957. This book explains–and illustrates with both color and black & white photographs–the operations of logging railroads in the state from about 1940-1960.It includes a fascinating look at the rapid and haphazard laying of track, the challenge of getting up the mountains, and the hazards of derailing locomotives. Warden's book addresses the romance of back woods railroading.
With puffy white clouds in an azure blue sky, a Shay type narrow gauge geared locomotive on the Ely-Thomas Lumber Company's logging railroad hauls a train of logs toward the mill in June 1954. This scene is typical of the interesting West Virginia logging railroad operations that are portrayed in this book.
In another Ely-Thomas Lumber Company scene, Shay No. 5 prepares to cross Manns Run, near the end of this narrow gauge logging line's life in October.
William E. Warden began photographing logging railroads in West Virginia in 1957. He prepared this… Read More
