. Baltimore and Ohio employees magazine . e to make a trip over theB. S. & P. was the old camel No. 128, withHezekiah Williams, now living in Mar-tinsburg, at the throttle. Joseph Tyson,still living in Berkeley Springs, was thefireman; Frank McAnney, deceased, theconductor, and Frank Kersccker, de-ceased, the brakeman. Later a smallpassenger engine. No. 55, was sent to thebranch to release No. 128. The presentcrew consists of C. H. Fisher, conductor;F. E. Collier, engineer; George Hobday,fireman, R. E. Jones, baggagemaster,and R. C. Brakeall, brakeman. Thetrain is shown in tlie accompanjingpic
. Baltimore and Ohio employees magazine . e to make a trip over theB. S. & P. was the old camel No. 128, withHezekiah Williams, now living in Mar-tinsburg, at the throttle. Joseph Tyson,still living in Berkeley Springs, was thefireman; Frank McAnney, deceased, theconductor, and Frank Kersccker, de-ceased, the brakeman. Later a smallpassenger engine. No. 55, was sent to thebranch to release No. 128. The presentcrew consists of C. H. Fisher, conductor;F. E. Collier, engineer; George Hobday,fireman, R. E. Jones, baggagemaster,and R. C. Brakeall, brakeman. Thetrain is shown in tlie accompanjingpicture. The mountains around Berkeley Springsare of sand rock formation and the min-ing, working into sand and marketing of this material, has developed intoa big industry. The rock is blastedfrom the mountains and ground into the(lesinMl degrees of fineness in th(^ of it is re(luc(Ml to a state verynmcii lik(^ fine flour. The sand is purewhite and is used in the manufacture offine liLissware. I^or this hi<rh t:;iade sand. (,)rAHHVING AND CJRIXDINAi Wlllii; SAM) ROCK FOR GLASS MANL FACTURK IS THK CHIEF INDUSTRY OF BERKELEY SPRINGS the glass trade depends almost entirelyui)on the seemingly inexhaustible supplyfrom these mountains. Nine sand mills dot the mountainsand when running at full capacity makethings hum. The West Virginia andPittsburgh Sand Co. has three mills,the Pennsvlvania Glass Sand Co. two,
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