Operations between Bluefield and Maybeury

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Ron,

I don't know about that hand-drawn track plan that you attached or what the City of Roanoke boundaries were in 1950, but a January 1, 1987, track chart shows that going east from Vinton the railroad crosses from Vinton into the City of Roanoke at about Mile Post N-254.8, passes Boaz (and Bridge 96) at about Mile Post N-254.1 and crosses from the City of Roanoke into Roanoke County at about Mile Post N-253.6, putting Boaz in the current boundaries of the City of Roanoke.

Maybe the question is whether Boaz was or is in the City of Roanoke.

Gordon Hamilton
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  Harry,

  I disagree with you here. Boaz Pusher Siding is in Roanoke County, not in the City of Roanoke or the Town of Vinton.

  Check out this 1950s vintage track chart. 

  http://www.nwhs.org/qna/photos/BoazSiding.jpg

  The Bridge #96 (a culvert actually) just east of the siding is still in place and is the only landmark that remains in place today.

  Interestingly, my 1969 lists of stations and sidings shows Boaz Pusher Siding at Mile Post 250.62, not MP 254 as shown on this chart.

  Ron Davis

  At 10:41 PM 7/31/2007, you wrote:

    The Boaz pusher siding has been removed.  It was
    located at Mile Post 254, or a mile timetable east of
    Vinton in an area known to railroaders as Berkley
    Bottom.  It was a third of a mile east of the Berkley
    Road crossing, but was still within the City of Roanoke.
     
    Briefly, the Norfolk Division had two Boaz's -- the
    pusher siding and one in Isle of Wight County on the
    former VGN.   A distinction was made by identifying
    the station east of Roanoke as the Boaz Pusher Sdg.
     
                                                         Harry Bundy 


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