[caption id="attachment_24040" align="aligncenter" width="600"]<img src="https://pocahontastimes.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/25/2019/03/Pres.-Poca-2.jpg" alt="" width="600" height="546" class="size-full wp-image-24040" /> Track Removal at Clover Lick - 1980[/caption] This picture reminds me of a song from Mick Souter, “The Dying Day of the American Train.” Bill McNeel took the photograph in Clover Lick on March 29, 1980 as the tracks along the Greenbrier Division of the C&O Railroad were being removed. A stack of railroad ties sits quietly on the left, waiting to be picked up. Pocahontas Co. Historical Society, ID: PHS002898 Access the “Preserving Pocahontas” Digital Library at www.pocahontaspreservation.org or www.preservingpocahontas.org If you have historical records or photographs to be scanned for the county Historical Archive contact Preservation Officer B. J. Gudmundsson at 304-799-3989 or email info@pocahontaspreservation.org Prints of photographs are available.
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