The 1929 USGS map shows the route of the rail line. The Chesapeake & Ohio Railway (C&O) took over the line early in 1917, but this rail line was in operation until at less the early-1940s, some years after the "monuments" were built.


Soon after the C&O acquired the KGJ&E Railway (then owned by Wm. McKell's heirs) in 1940, the right of way was abandoned and the tracks were taken up through this section of town.