1917 Shen. Div. TT

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The Hatch Branch diverted from the mainline about a mile south of 
Buchanan, four miles north of Lithia. In the 1921 list of stations and 
sidings, it says for West End Furnace or Pulaski Iron Company shipments 
only, with shipments to and from other parties not handled.

There was a siding (no facilities for handling freight) listed at MP S 
222, south of Lithia as Spec, which also only handled CL and LCL to and 
from Pulaski Iron Company.

Further, the Crimora Branch Junction, MP S 136 is listed as 2.38 miles 
long, 1 mile north of Crimora station.

Ken Miller

On Jan 12, 2006, at 1:17 PM, nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org wrote:


>

> Jimmy:

> Don't know how much help this is, but the Hatch Branch appeared in Dr. 

> Blackstock's  1928 edition of the Open & Prepay.   It diverged from 

> the main line between Lithia (known as Mollie on the Shenandoah 

> Valley) and Looney's, which was apparently a station near Looney's 

> Creek, on the Roanoke-side of Buchanan.  System maps from the 1890's 

> also show an ore branch that connected at Nace.

>  

>                                                        Harry Bundy