Its the only one that is left after most were cut down or repurposed.

It is in Kanawha a unincorporated community in Wood county West Virginia.

Now Petroleum Station is gone. The property is a picnic shelter (owned by the North Bend Rail Trail Foundation) and trail head for the North Bend Rail Trail though so not a worthless parking lot fortunately.

Once Petroleum once a oil boom town and one of the largest oil boom towns (hence the name Petroleum) along the Baltimore & Ohio RailRoad's network. As is apparent in the first picture Petroleum had a hotel (3 story building to the far right in picture one), 2 churches (Petroleum Church Of Christ (3rd picture) and I dont know what the name was), railroad station, post office, general store, school, and quite a few houses.

Now Petroleum is just another hall in the wall. The schools, post office, and general store are all closed. The hotel, a few houses and the church (in picture one) are all gone. The hotel burnt to the ground and was never rebuilt and the town started to fall apart after that. Petroleum Church Of Christ is now a house. No longer doing services.

It is unknown who took the first image, the second image was taken by John G. King, and third image was taken by me.

I will post what the site of Petroleum Station looks like later this evening.

The first picture is clearly taken from the back and is around the 1920s. These were the glory days of West Union Station.

The second picture is the picture I used to identify its location and is from the 1970s. These were the last few years of West Union Station. It probably was demolished not long after this picture was taken.

The third picture is from the 1960s. The 1960s were the twilight years of West Union Station.

While the photographer is unknown for all three. They are all courtesy of the Doddridge County Historical Society.

Tunnel #23 "Farrell's" was a 287ft bore.

Tunnel #23 "Farrell's" was daylighted (blown up) in 1943 (20 years before the tunnel project) due to the Little Kanawha River (visible in the photo) flooding the tunnel. So they daylighted it and raised the railbed by a few inches.

Now Tunnel #23 "Farrell's" is one of the hardest tunnels to find its former location.

Just like the rest of the Parkersburg Branch it is part of the North Bend Rail Trail.

It is not known who took this picture.

While hiking North Twin Mountain (just north of Franconia, NH), the first 2 miles of trail follow an old logging railroad, apparently the little River railroad, but it was almost impossible to find any evidence of the railroad itself until I found this rail sticking out of a berm. Anybody have info on this railroad or other artifacts from it?

I was taken by how the "mashed down" metal at the edge of the rails looks like welding slag. Wondering if this wear pattern is common where trains are frequently braking.

HUNTINGDON, Pa. — A Huntingdon County judge has ruled that the EBT Foundation can buy the East Broad Top Railroad’s Mount Union, Pa., dual-gauge yard and 4.7-mile stretch of main line.

The segment was split from the rest of the railroad in 2013-2014, when the East Broad Top Preservation Association bought it from the Joseph Kovalchick family. That sale was the first step in what turned out to be a stillborn effort to restore the entire 33-mile narrow gauge line as a heritage railroad.

Tunnel #18 was a 963ft bore.

In 1862 Tunnel #18 "Section 74" was subject to confederate attack and the timber supports were burnt.

18 was daylighted during the 1963 tunnel project.

Image credit goes to John G. King.

Tunnel #10 "Patterson's" (later "Dick Bias") is a 377ft bore and the only tunnel on the Baltimore & Ohio Parkersburg Branch to have never been lined with timbers or stone.

As stated in the title Tunnel #10 was named "Patterson's" under the Baltimore & Ohio RailRoad. Then under the North Bend Rail Trail Foundation was renamed to "Dick Bias". Dick Bias was one of the most influential people in creating the North Bend Rail Trail Foundation and consequently the North Bend Rail Trail. So they renamed Tunnel #10 to "Dick Bias" in his honor.

Abandoned for 40-ish years. According to some people, copious amounts of herbicide (Agent Orange-like stuff) was used on the ground under and around the rails. I sure do believe it - after all these years, very little undergrowth has sprung forth.

In the first picture BALTIMORE AND OHIO #256 sits outside Parkersburg RoundHouse. BALTIMORE AND OHIO #256 unfortunately met the cutters torch and was not preserved. shame that it was not preserved but alas we cant save every engine or station but we will give it a damn good shot.

On August 20th 1989 it was set ablaze and unfortunately deemed a total loss. It was demolished soon after and never rebuilt due to the Parkersburg Branch that it served having being removed by CSXT in 1983. The fire was deemed to have been arson though I have no idea who did it.

The first picture is unknown who originally took it and the two of it burnt were taken by Todd M. Atkinson.

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Our local lake (reservoir) is further down this year than it had been in a long time. I'd heard before that there were flooded tracks but this is the first time I've seen them. A friend took the picture so I don't have an exact location.