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===Company Branch Railroad Lines=== In 1891 the Somerset Stone Company built a branch line from the Somerset & Cambria railroad's station at Milford east to its operation at Bare Rocks,<ref name="SomersetHerald1891">{{cite news |title=Thinks the Boom Is Booming |url=https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn84026409/1891-06-10/ed-1/seq-3.pdf |newspaper=Somerset Herald |date=10 June 1891 |access-date=18 October 2020}}</ref> and the Bare Rock Rail Road Company was incorporated by John Murdock, J.M. Murdock, W.F. Murdock, J.C. Duncan, Samuel Fox, Josiah Woy, E.B. McColly, and S.F. Gill in 1892.<ref name="BareRockRRIncorporated">{{cite news |title=[Messrs. John, J.M. and W.F. Murdock] |url=https://panewsarchive.psu.edu/lccn/sn86083421/1892-12-01/ed-1/seq-8.pdf |access-date=29 October 2023 |work=Somerset County Star |date=1 December 1892}}</ref> This connecting Milford Station was also known as Woy Station, where Harry Neff was the telegraph operator and Jacob Neff was the engineer of the Bare Rock line in 1893.<ref name="WoyStation">{{cite news |title=[The officials of the B&O] |url=https://panewsarchive.psu.edu/lccn/sn86083421/1893-01-12/ed-1/seq-8.pdf |access-date=29 October 2023 |work=Somerset County Star |date=12 January 1893}}</ref> A tragic accident occurred along this company line on the evening of April 25, 1893, killing several people.<ref name="SomersetHerald1893">{{cite news |title=Frightful Accident |url=https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn84026409/1893-04-26/ed-1/seq-3.pdf |newspaper=Somerset Herald |date=26 April 1893 |access-date=18 October 2020}}</ref><ref name="SomersetCountyStar1893">{{cite news |title=Horrible Railroad Wreck Near Somerset |url=https://panewsarchive.psu.edu/lccn/sn86083421/1893-04-27/ed-1/seq-8.pdf |access-date=30 October 2023 |work=Somerset County Star |date=27 April 1893}}</ref> In 1900 the Wilson Creek Coal Company constructed another branch railroad off of the Somerset & Cambria; this company line ran from about one mile north of Rockwood to its mining property about three miles to the east, following the course of Wilson Creek.<ref name="SomersetHerald1900">{{cite news |title=A Charter Was Granted |url=https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn84026409/1900-05-30/ed-1/seq-4.pdf |newspaper=Somerset Herald |date=30 May 1900 |access-date=17 October 2020}}</ref><ref name="WCCCRRCompleted">{{cite news |title=A Few from the Somerset Standard |url=https://panewsarchive.psu.edu/lccn/sn86083421/1900-09-06/ed-1/seq-4.pdf |access-date=29 October 2023 |work=Somerset County Star |date=6 September 1900}}</ref>
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