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A note on the back of this photograph indicates it was taken in Huntington, West Virginia,
on April 23, 1901, but offers no clue as to the location of this stretch of flooded railroad
track. Magnification identifies one of the buildings at left as the refrigerated storage ware-
house built and operated by J. M. McCoach and Company, which means this is the main
line of the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway, looking east from a point just past the city's
downtown.
This postcard from McKeesport, Pennsylvania, shows the flooded intersection of Fourth Av-
enue and Water Street on March 14, 1907. McKeesport is located about 12 miles up the
