Dissecting Wheeling - B&O Loading Facility

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[@707Milan]

My dad, Milan Vosvick Jr. was the warehouse manager of that corner Boury's warehouse in the late 60's early 70's and I spent a lot of Saturday mornings in there and running around the then vacant already B&O train depot.

[@JBIRDRN8]

Love these old pics! Thanks for doing it! It would be great if after every pic you showed a pic of what it looks like in that same area today!

[@wheelinghistory]

That would be great but my age is hindering me from going out to get the present day photos. Sorry , I do get some when I can

[@robdove4105]

This was a less than carload facility for the B&O. It was called a freight station. Think ups but with trains instead of trucks. Adjacent to this was another freight station that can be seen in the background that was the Pennsylvania freight station. A few blocks away near where the bus station was there was a third freight station that belonged to the Wheeling and Lake Erie Railroad. All these entities brought in huge amounts of freight that went into local storage areas for the businesses in the area. One used to be able to read old articles from the news register and the inteligencer back when we had a morning and evening paper. In the early part of the 20th century these freight houses did millions of dollars worth of business and that was at a time when a few thousand dollars was a living wage.

[@wheelinghistory]

@@robdove4105 thank you so much for your input , I love this city