Photos below by M. Charles Pyles - Air Pix Aviation Photos http://www.airpixphoto.com.  Reprints of these slides can be made available.

Charles is a native of Randolph County currently living in Kentucky.  He graduated from Elkins HS in 1962, worked for US Airways for 35.5 years and is now retired.  Story has it he was the Santa in Grant's Department store in 1960 and 1961.

Thank you for the fine pictures, Charles!

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!cid_120475201@08012002-1683.jpg (78843 bytes) This is a tighter scanned image of slide below
!cid_120475201@08012002-168A.jpg (353046 bytes) South to N view of the Elkins WMRR yard in August 1981.
!cid_120475201@08012002-1691.jpg (225956 bytes) North to South view of the Elkins WMRR yard in August 1981.
!cid_120475201@08012002-1698.jpg (235706 bytes) West to East view of the Elkins WMRR yard in August 1981.
!cid_120475201@08012002-169F.jpg (220743 bytes) North to South view of the Elkins WMRR yard in August 1981.
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This is a shot of Leadsville and Highland Park with my home place right in the middle beside the church. My brother Dick still lives there. August 1981
!cid_120475201@08012002-16AD.jpg (414259 bytes) The house in the foreground is the Reckart home where my old High School friend Sharron Reckart lives and across the road in the smaller house is where my sister Luwana Smith lives. Location is on the back road to Gilman just as you start up the hill. I can't remember the name of the school that used to be at the top of the hill. Picture was August 1981.
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Another West to East shot which shows the DM Hospital foreground and the Third Ward school bottom right.  August 1981.

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