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Photo by Kevin Scanlon. An overview shot of the Western Maryland Elkins, WV Yard on April 16, 1977. To the right is the car repair facility, center distance is the engine service tracks. On the left are the inbound and outbound yard tracks and the station.
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Photo by Kevin Scanlon. The Western Maryland Station in Elkins, West Virginia, on Railroad Avenue as seen on November 19, 1977. This station still stands although the rails it once served has since been removed.
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Photo by Kevin Scanlon. The engine service tracks, inspection pit and sand tower still stand on March 29, 1987, although within a few years little would be left.
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Photo by Kevin Scanlon. Western Maryland Elkins, WV engine service tracks on August 30, 1987. In the foreground is the ash hoist, sand tower in the background. The silver building to the left is the blacksmith shop.
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Photo by Kevin Scanlon. WM F7A #236 outside the Elkins roundhouse at night. May 17, 1975
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Photo by Kevin Scanlon. Classic black Western Maryland power waiting in Elkins yard on October 12, 1975.
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GP9 #28 and two other chopnose Geeps have brought an excursion into Elkins yard. Matt Reese Collection
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Photo by Jerry Doyle. A Grafton Turn is idling outside the Elkins Station in the late summer of 1985, awaiting a crew to take it west via Belington and Tygart Junction.
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Photo by Kevin Scanlon. An Elkins Turn out of Grafton is crossing the Tygart Valley River in Elkins on October 4, 1987. A few years later this bridge was removed by CSX when the Elkins yard was closed.
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Photo by Jerry Doyle. The same Grafton Turn seen above is on the move as the lead units approach the wye on the south side of Elkins, just across the Tygart Valley River from the yard.
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