. Baltimore and Ohio employees magazine . o the outer world, so thecity of Jenkins grew to meet the railroad—marvelouslyand as by magic. The walls of Shelby Gap went down before the railroadbuilders and the upper end of Elkhorn Valley widenedand took shape and became the main street of railroad tunnelled its way through the mountain sidewhile the miners pick scratched the face of the mountainand giant tipples grew to meet the scratch. The railroadthrew its steel bridges across the winding waters ofShelby Creek and the Elkhorn, while a schoolhousepointed its spire to the sky above t
. Baltimore and Ohio employees magazine . o the outer world, so thecity of Jenkins grew to meet the railroad—marvelouslyand as by magic. The walls of Shelby Gap went down before the railroadbuilders and the upper end of Elkhorn Valley widenedand took shape and became the main street of railroad tunnelled its way through the mountain sidewhile the miners pick scratched the face of the mountainand giant tipples grew to meet the scratch. The railroadthrew its steel bridges across the winding waters ofShelby Creek and the Elkhorn, while a schoolhousepointed its spire to the sky above the humming valley. While this work was going on, an army of indomitablemen with oxen and mule teams toiled its way over themountain trail, hauling boilers, engines, mining and elec-trical machinery and accomplishing Herculean tasks—seemingly impossible. A wall of masonry reared its mas-sive crest at the end of a valley and a hundred milliongallons of water lay dammed behind it, while below ap- 1 2 BALTIMORE AND OHIO EMPLOYES MAGAZINE. SITE OF JENKINS pearcd a power house with turbine engines set in concrete;and along the lakeside, thus formed, the houses and bunga-lows of the officers with their setting of forest trees andrhododendron, gave the valley the appearance of a moun-tain summer resort. The mountain trails, ragged anddangerous and overhanging dizzy precipices, gave placeto solid grades, and in the valleys the creek bottoms werereclaimed and widened outto meet the mountain roads. Just two years ago thiswork began. The accom-panying photographs giveonly in small measure anidea of the marvels workedin that short time. Athoroughly equipped rail-road operating over thirtymiles of track, and a cor-porate city of four thous-and population now exist,where before was a narrowvalley locked away fromall the world and sparselysettled by a mountain people as primitive as were their Highland ancestors two hundred yearsago. The railroad wasconstructed by theConsolidation CoalComp
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