"Dinky" Railroad Excursion

ID: 452 ~ Source: Allan Howt Digital Collection
 ~ Date: 1905
This file appears in: Liberty Furnace
"Dinky" Railroad Excursion
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Photograph showing a group of individuals aboard a special excursion train along the "Dinky" route heading to Liberty Furnace to celebrate the opening of the new blast furnace there in 1905.

This file appears in: Liberty Furnace

Liberty Furnace

By The Shenandoah Stories team
In 1821 Walter Newman purchased approximately 900 acres in the western part of Shenandoah County and one year later began mining and refining iron ore in the area. He called his production facility…