Wytheville station?

[NW Mailing List]

--- NW Mailing List <nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org> wrote:


> When did the old Wytheville depot disappear?

> On both of my trips through there, in '87 and '89, I

> believe, I figured the 

> depot was long gone as I photographed the area

> around where I thought the 

> site was. It was only when VPI posted its shots of

> the un-N&W-like depot in 

> its glory days that I realized the depot was still

> there, but now 

> incorporated into a feed mill. Turns out I actually

> had photographed the 

> thing without realizing what it was. Wish I had

> explored more and looked 

> inside the picture windows. Have the mill and the

> depot bitten the dust 

> since then?

> 

<snip>

I recall visiting there from the farm (the Simmermans,
out on rural route 4), with cattle for shipping in
1974. That I think was the freight depot.

I'll dust off the prints/images, and see if I took any
shots. 

The passenger station may have still been there in the
'70s (when did passenger service end?), but had I'm
sure gone by the time I went looking , oh, must have
been early/mid-90s.

Dominic


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