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		Freight Train at Roan Mountain Date: 1950
Here is a color shot of a freight train switching Roan Mountain in the last year of the narrow gauge.

		Whisman and Wilhoit Date: 1950
Here is a great shot of General Manager W.W. Whisman and future CEO K. E. Wilhoit on the pilot steps of the 11 September 24, 1950.  Mr. Wilhoit was the head man from the early 1960's until Red Ball bought them out.  He got the stock up to a huge number and made a lot of Johnson City folks a trainload (maybe I should have said a truck-line load) of money,  He had a large collection of ET&WNC paperwork and donated it to the Archives of Appalachia just last year.

		Caboose 505 Date: 1950
Caboose 505 got to looking pretty bad there toward the end.

		In the Weeds Date: 1950
George W Hardin would roll over in his grave if he saw what shape the track was in by 1950.  Here the little 11 waddles up what is now old Railroad Grade Road in Carter County.

		Cy and Earl Vest Date: 1950
Mr Crumley talks to one of the officials just inside tunnel 2 in the gorge.  That's Earl Vest up in the cab looking back at them.  He was a fine old man and his son Jack is a great tenor sax player.  He played many a job with Gene Young.

		Top Officials Date: 1950
Here are all the brass hats lined up with the 11 at Cranberry.  The only ones I recognize are the second from left is company lawyer James Epps, and next to the end on the other end is Alfred Steele.  I expect all these guys were from Philadelphia except Mr. Epps.  His office was in Johnson City.

		Backing Up Date: 1950
After the war there were no places to turn the engines around in Elizabethton, so they backed up from Cranberry back to O'Brien.  The exception was the official trains, which ran the wye in Cranberry and headed back to Elizabethton.  The engine was then backed to Cranberry, turned around, and backed up all the way back to Elizabethton.