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Smithville Train Station

The caption with the picture reads:

"November 15, 1939, about 3:10 p.m. Train #72, Engine 6412, passing Wheeling and Lake Erie Station at Smithville, Ohio
at 40 miles per hour.  Engineer D. J. Evans, conductor Edw. Krause.  Photograph taken by Dan V. Mishler of Mishler
Manufacturing Company, whose camera had a 1/300th-second shutter.
Rush R. Webner, Agent and Operator, handing orders to the engineer."


 
 

Rush Webner at the Smithville Train Station



Photo credits: "World Wide Webner" site. [See Members' Sites Page]  Thanks Neil!
 


 
 

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