"Virginia-Carolina Branch" in 1918

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"greater metropolitan Damascus". I love it, anyone who has driven through Damascus while enjoying the fall foilage would certainly wonder where the metropolitan portion of Damascus is.
Love the posts. 

Bob Welsh

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  SOS:
  I suspect Ben Blevins is correct -- Rule 93 eliminated the need to show
  the "X" at Damascus.  Using Radford Div. Time Table #18 (04/30/22) as
  a source,  it mentions TWO crossings in the Special Instructions "At Damascus, 
  near old Douglas Mill ( Laurel Railway) and "At Damascus, near Extract
  Plant (Laurel Railway)".  Louis Newton's RAILS REMEMBERED (Vol 3) has
  a map (08/20/15) which shows a crossing of the Laurel Railway south of
  Damascus on the main line, yet no "X" appears for this crossing.  It is
  interesting to note that both the Laurel and the Beaver Dam RR shared
  N&W's turn table at Damascus   As noted by LMN, Nos.201-202 had to
  travel a remnant of the former Beaver Dam RR to arrive at the depot in
  greater metropolitan Damascus. Beaver Dam trains had the right to use
  the Abingdon Branch Beaver Creek Dam to Laurel Avenue UNDER YARD
  RULES.  The town certainly had a multitude of joint facilities.
                                                                   Harry Bundy


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