This really should be in Flimsies, but I don't know how to place that there, so here it is.

http://www.theintelligencer.net/page/co ... ml?nav=506

Ross Rowland and some others here may remember taking 2101 and 614 through these locations in later years.

Street running on 17th Street; now demolished elevated platforms for the downtown station in background. Station building survives as a college today.

http://www.theintelligencer.net/photos/ ... 3908_1.jpg

Train headed for Pittsburgh passing the station in Elm Grove, a Wheeling suburb. Station exists today as a vegetable and flower market, but bridge approach and embankment gone.

http://www.theintelligencer.net/photos/ ... 3908_2.jpg

Train from Pittsburgh exiting Tunnel 1 or Tunnel Greene; will then continue on for about a half mile and then run down 17th Street to the station. I-70 now passes to the left of the photo. This segment of the railroad, including bridge and tunnel, now a trail.

http://www.theintelligencer.net/photos/ ... 3908_3.jpg

I used to be from Wheeling.

I live in the wrong time.

Even worse, I've had three people tell me I live in the wrong time.

Even worse than that, I've had a young girl tell me I reminded her of her grandfather. I'm a bit older than her dad, but to have been her grand-dad I would have to have been her daddy's dad when I was 10 years old.

The late J. J. Young is now on Flikr, too; someone has 850 of his photographs there. The initial look is that this is later material from the 1970s in New York; I ran into a link in a thread on this at Railroad.net.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/jjyoungjr/

It's worth noting that I remember reading in rail publications about things like this and seeing photos of, say RS-3s, and thinking at the time, "Bah, it's not like the steam era." But look again, and see how much has changed, some things for the better, some things worse, and a lot just gone--all a reminder of just how temporary things can be.

I remember JJ well as he was almost always trackside chasing the HICO steam trips of the 60's and 70's and did some beautiful work.

I can relate to your comments on the young girls remark. I dated a lady half my age some years back ( between wives) and she took endless ribbing from her friends who would ask her how her granddad (me) was!!

Oh well, it was good while it lasted!!

Onward and upward.

Ross Rowland

The bridge over Wheeling Creek and Tunnel One are now lighted and part of the trail system.

Some of J.J.'s pictures, mostly the Wheeling area ones, now belong to West Virginia Northern Community College and go on display periodically. (WVNCC is mostly in the old Wheeling passenger station. Side note: our front door is the one taken from the agent's office during the remodeling.)

He presented a slide show over there once and told us all that the picture you have is better than the one you wish you had taken, but didn't because the light wasn't perfect or you had the old camera or the engine was headed in the wrong direction. That's where he told the story about driving past a roundhouse that was suddenly cleaned up, then deciding he'd come back in the morning with a better camera when the light was best. The roundhouse burned down that night and he never did get a picture of it.

I can't help but wonder if that wasn't the roundhouse at Holloway, Ohio. I remember when it burned down in the 1970s.

The D&H's Bevier Street roundhouse (in Binghamton, NY) also burned down in the 1970s - here's a picture from trainweb.org:

I recall that he said where they were, but can't remember now. I don't think it was Holloway and don't think Benwood had burned yet.