Bristol Line traffic patterns

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--- nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org wrote:

  To this day, the preferred route for
 > traffic out of  Knoxville is
 > via
 > Asheville and Salisbury.  Double stacks excepted.
 >
 >
 >          Harry Bundy


Didn't they call that "shipping around the horn" or
something like that before the N&W/Southern merger?
There were four trains a day between Knoxville and
Bristol (158/159 and 185/186) in the '70s, and only
one had any amount of freight on it that connected
with the BR-2, and from the RB-3 etc., I believe.
Hope it's not heading back to those days.

Also, they've been working on the line from Knoxville
to Bristol recently, replacing ties and doing grade
crossing work around Greeneville, etc.

Mike Kelley