| Its
circa 1885 and Engine #8 of the Ceveland and Marietta Railroad is
filling its oil tank cars with crude oil from the Macksburg, Ohio, Noble
County oil fields .The oil boom in this area was early and did not last
long but the C&M reaped some revenue dollars from it. At Macksburg
was a wye that lead into a valley and this is where we believe that the
oil was loaded. The wye at Macksburg lasted till the last days of the
railroad although it saw little use. The C&M ran from Marietta, Ohio
to Cambridge, Ohio then to Dover, Ohio. The C&M Railroad became part of
the Pennsylvania Railroad but always retained its down home quality.
Engine #8 was a 4-6-0 built by Baldwin in 1873 for the predecessor
Marietta and Pittsburgh Railroad and was named the "
Blackband". |
