PREP PLANTS AND LOADOUTS

I believe these photos show the foundation ruins of a tipple near the abandoned town of Coketon, WV outside the town of Thomas in Tucker County. The ruins are located at the end of a long sequence of deteriorating beehive coke ovens. There were hundreds of these ovens stretched along a Western Maryland Railway line. November 14, 2025.

Clearfork Lumber Company in Clairfield, Tennessee built around 1908-10 - the company opened around 1902.

If I’m not wrong this was from Back Creek in Pruden. I have found a bunch of pictures of Pruden and Fonde and different places that I hope I can find and post on here soon.

Pruden, Tn. May 17th, 1940