The P&WV Hi-Line

[PWVJer]

...from what we understand, prioirty will be given to the W&LE/P&WV
Mingo Jct. area images ( about 200 or so?), one of his early favorite R.R. places to visit.
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Photographer Sam Botts and Young’s son, J.J. Young III, will now begin to examine and scan thousands of the elder Young’s negatives.
Botts says the project will take several years to complete.
The Binghamton area images that have already been posted consumed two years of work to make the 800 images available.

Young was born in Wheeling, W.Va., on May 23, 1929 and began taking photographs when he was seven years old in 1936.
He worked for the Wheeling & Lake Erie Railroad before moving in 1959 to Binghamton where he taught photography.
After retiring from Broome Technical Community College in Binghamton in 1995, Young relocated to Charleston,
where he continued his life-long hobby of photographing trains until his death.
Young never had a driver’s license, yet visited all 48 states in the continental U.S. chasing trains.

Young amassed a collection of more than 10,000 images before he passed away in 2004.

Four images from Young’s steam era photography have been added to the Flickr page at www.flickr.com/photos/jjyoungjr. or this Link:

https://www.flickr.com/photos/jjyoungjr
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The Hi-Line collection includes (PWV/WLE) about 30 or so, 8 X 10 B/W signed images.
These were sent/given to us by J Young when he still lived in Binghamton N.Y. we posted a bunch on our site.