The Western Maryland Yard at Elkins

Thanks for visiting my Western Maryland Railroad Elkins Yard project. I'll be sharing photographs and stories of the Western Maryland Railroad in my hometown of Elkins, WV with the world. I shot the aerial photograph below of the Elkins Yard in August 1981. You can click on any photo to see a larger one.

	If you found this page because of the story in the Elkins Inter Mountain, these are the type photos that we're looking to find. If you're able to identify the folks in these photos, please e-mail me at cpyles@shakylake.com and share what you know. I know the name of the man on the left by car 319 is Russ Maxon, Sr. If you have a story you can tell about Russ or you're in his family, I'd like to hear from you.
Photo at right was taken in January 1965.
	At left is a K-2 #203 train crew with Engineer J T 'Thad Harrison in the middle with Fireman ?? Barker to his left. If you know any of the others, please let me know. That's J T 'Thad' Harrison in front of K-2 #208 at Cumberland at right possibly getting ready for a run down to Elkins. Below is the nice little story that goes with the pictures. My grandfather is the one in the middle of 5 of them. Barker his fireman is on Pops left. One of those men may be C. B. Wilcox who worked out of Elkins, WV. I know that our family had the most beautiful, and largest Christmas trees every year, because Pop would bring them back from Elkins on the train. We could hardly keep the tree on the car for the ride home, it was so big, sometimes we had to get a friends truck. Always had to cut the top out of the tree, 3-4 ft. They were the "Good Old Days" all gone by now! Charlie, I hope this project you have taken on turns out to be just the way you want it to be. I'm glad I could be of some help. I'm very proud to let people know about my grandfather JT Harrison, and his job on the Western Maryland Railroad. Judy Briner