* This map shows the two railroads coming out
of the hollow and crossing.
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The Story
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Kelley's Creek &
Northwestern Railroad had its beginning in 1902, when
the Valley Camp Coal
Company wanted to expand their coal mining
industry further in to Kelley's Creek hollow. In mining more coal
they needed a better way of transporting it. Thus,
V.C.C.Co. started their own railroad right
beside the already present, Kelly's Creek
Railroad. It is a terrific story of two railroads up the same
hollow that crossed twice, but one managed
to stay in business until April 1993 (KC&NW) when Quaker State
sold all of there holdings in Valley Camp Coal. Click
for...
The rest of the story....
No. 6 at Ward engine house, shop, and sand house.
6 was build by Alco in Jan-1920 S/N 61579.
She is 95.5 tons with 56 inch drivers, and was bought new by the KC&NW.
You can see her run now on the Ohio
Central.
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No. 2 was built for the Kanawha, Glen Jean & Eastern
by the Baldwin Locomotive Works in Feb-1912 S/N 37530.
She was scrapped in 1950 at Riverside, WV.
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Cool fact - When the KC&NW started
there was no Kanawha and Michigan (Later NYC) going up the
Valley, but when the railroad did move its way through the
KC&NW was already in place, so they (the KC&NW) got the
right away. Therefore, the NYC, all the way through Conrail, had
to stop for the KC&NW trains crossing over.
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