Durbin Train Station
by Jurgen Lorenzen
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Durbin Train Station
Artist
Jurgen Lorenzen
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Photograph - Photography
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Durbin, West Virginia grew up in the late 1700s in the densely forested Allegheny mountains of then western Virginia. The town is located in Pocahontas County, between the East and West Forks that form the Greenbrier River.
The need to move timber out of the mountains and workers into the area motivated the construction of the railroad. The Chesapeake and Ohio (C&O) brought the first passengers to Durbin in 1902. The next year, the Western Maryland reached south from Elkins, making Durbin a railroad junction for freight and passengers.
Today, Durbin, a town of fewer than 300 residents, continues its tradition of being a town heavily reliant on the railroad industry—but now it is rail tourism rather than logging and interstate passenger service.
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