Norfolk Southern "0" Milepost

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Bill,

I must plead most guilty to taking us astray by my very first answer which 
jumped from railroading to municipalities by citing the location of "Zero 
Milepost" for the City of Norfolk! Sorry for getting us off-track again.

Albert Burckard

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Subject: Norfolk Southern "0" Milepost



> As I recall, the originasl question was "Where is the Norfolk Southern "0"

> milepost"?   True to form we immediately get a lot of chat about the N&W

> "0" milepost.   Where is it written that the N&W IS the NS?   Give me a 

> break.

> Depending on the division, sub-division, or branchline on the NS there are

> dozens of  "0" mileposts.  The way the question was submitted, and if you

> want to get technical about it,  the "0" milepost of the original NS was 

> at

> the old terminal Station in  Norfolk, Va. and ended in Charlotte, N.C. 

> Did

> the Southern Railway not also have a few "0" mileposts?   I recall a 

> couple

> right off, such as  Union Station in Washington, D.C. with the other end

> in New Orleans, La., or Cincinnati on the CNO&TP with the other end in

> Atlanta, Ga.   All of the predecessor railroads  of the Southern Railway

> System had a milepost system still in use today.  Who else but Southern

> Railway has a stretch of track with  at least 5 mileposts   in a row out 

> over

> open water, i.e.  Lake Ponchatrain bridge, and at one time the Albemarle

> Sound bridge, which, when completed in 1910, was the longest bridge

> over navigable water in the world.   Bill Sellers

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