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"Steam Shovel or Ditcher at work near Elgin, Ore."

"Bowman Hicks Lumber Co. Speeder - Boatman Meadows - Maxville, Oregon - 1923. [The people in the picture appear to be: Seated in the speeder - Hercial Jones, engineer. Standing behind Jones in the speeder - Kenneth Anderson. And standing behind the…

"Train from Union to Cove - circa 1910" [Photograph used in "Supplement to History of Union County, No. 6" (page 62).]

"Cove / Union Train at Union"

"Chapel Car Emmanuel - Prairie Village S.D." "God is Love"

"Shay locomotive (probably #3) - Maxville, Oregon - about 1925."

"Lee Fine, Fay Coon, Relaford Hayes" stand next to train stock cars in Boatman Meadows, Maxville, Oregon - 1923. One of the cars is loaded with railroad "ties for Union Pacific," and the other car is loaded with "logs for Bowman-Hicks, La Grande…

"O.W.R.R.&N. Co. work train stopped at cut-off between Stanfield, Oregon and Hinkle, Oregon. - 1914 - 1. Bill Stoops [Stopps?], 2. Pat Burns, 3. J. Wolfe and 4. John Enburg pose beside the caboose while holding guns, fishing poles, rabbits and fish."

Men fill cans, pails and buckets in an effort to salvage the fuel from a small fuel pond that has formed next to a train wreck of tankers - circa 1934.

Men fill pails, milk cans, and even wash tubs from an overturned tanker in an effort to salvage the fuel - circa 1934.