Black Mountain BM 1 4-6-0 Burnsville, NC 6-1939 NEW 5X8 PHOTO

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Black Mountain BM 1 4-6-0 Burnsville, NC 6-1939 by Richard Prince
1 4-6-0 Logansport Shops of the Chicago, St. Louis & Pittsburgh 8/1882 19x22 50 90800 Chicago, St. Louis & Pittsburgh #423
to Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, Chicago & St. Louis #423, in 10/1890. Re. #543 in 8/1897.
to Ohio River & Charleston #5, in 3/1900.
to South & Western Ry. 2nd #5, in 1/1902.
to Carolina, Clinchfield & Ohio #5, in 3/1908.
to Black Mountain #1, in 4/1913.
to Yancey R.R. #1, Burnsville, NC, in 3/30/1955.
to City of Erwin, TN
The Black Mountain Railway was incorporated in North Carolina on April 21, 1910, to construct and operate a railroad between a point on the line of the Carolina, Clinchfield & Ohio Railway near Booneford, and a point about five miles west of Burnsville. The date of organization was July 25, 1910. The majority of the capital stock was owned by the Holston Corporation. The railroad was taken over by the Carolina, Clinchfield & Ohio around 1916. The line extended in a generally southward direction from a connection with the Carolina, Clinchfield & Ohio at Kona, NC to a point near Eskota NC, 23.719 miles, with a branch from a point near Eskota to Pensacola, NC, 0.337 miles. The branch to Pensacola served the sawmill of the Carolina Spruce Company. Construction of the line was as follows: Segment Work Started Work Completed Miles Kona to Bowditch, NC 12/16/1910 7/8/1911 8.270 Micaville to Pensacola 1912 8/10/1913 14.250 Pensacola to Eskota 4/1913 10/13/1913 2.980 TOTAL 25.5 Construction of the line was financed mainly by the Holston Corporation. The railroad was situated in the narrow valleys and small streams winding about the base of the Black Mountains. The main line contained one steel bridge, 280 feet in length. Rail on the main line was 60 lbs. On May 30, 1926, the railroad applied to the ICC for permission to abandon the portion of its main line from the Bowlens Creek branch to the south end near Eskota, including a spur extending from Pensacola to MP 20.139 to a point near Pensacola, for a total of 11.826 miles. The portion to be abandoned followed the Cane River and was built in 1912 and 1913 mainly to haul timber products from two large tracts of land, one owned by the Carolina Spruce Company, and the other by Brown Brothers Lumber Company. Both of these lumber companies were no longer operating. Abandonment would allow the railroad to discontinue the use of its leased 90-ton Shay. The ICC gave its permission to abandon this line on February 26, 1927. On the remaining line traffic diminished steadily for the next 20 years to the point where in 1951 the Clinchfield Railroad applied to the ICC for abandonment of the BM Ry. Permission was granted with one stipulation — if local interests wanted to acquire and operate the line, the Clinchfield was obligated to sell the line at a fair market price. Local interests did step forward and in 1951 purchased the line for ,000, then acquired a new locomotive. A small engine shed was erected at Burnsville, and the railroad was renamed the Yancey Railroad in 1955.
NEW 5X8 FULL FRAME PHOTO FROM ORIGINAL 616 OR 122 SIZE NEGATIVE
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I do 5x8 because it fits best for the 616 and 122 size negative formats without cropping.
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each)
8x10
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each),
11x14
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each)
and
13x19
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