Electric trains in West Virginia? You better believe it.
Norfolk & Western, Engine 2512 and 2513, Class LC1 Electric Locomotive, hauling coal, west of Bluestone, Mercer County, West Virginia.
Photos taken 06/10/1930.
(Photo source: Norfolk & Western Historical Photograph Collection, Virginia Tech)
(Photo source: Norfolk & Western Historical Photograph Collection, Virginia Tech)
Norfolk & Western, Engine 2508, Class LC1 Electric Locomotive, hauling coal, Maybeury, West Virginia.
Photos taken 06/12/1930.
(Photo source: Norfolk & Western Historical Photograph Collection, Virginia Tech)
(Photo source: Norfolk & Western Historical Photograph Collection, Virginia Tech)
Looking around now, you would never believe that there were ever electric locomotives working any part of West Virginia.
"We have no patience with other people's vanity because it is offensive to our own."
-- François de La Rochefoucauld. Réflexions ou sentences et maximes morales. 1665.
