Boaz Pix

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Further to the Boaz conversation, the recently-published M. Hope Farrell 
volume, N&W- Steam's Last Stand (available via the N&WHS Commissary), 
features within the Blue Ridge section the most extensive Boaz 
photographic treatment by far I have seen.  Some eight-plus pages, all 
Boaz.  Arresting photography, as found throughout the volume.

A related teaser:  The east-of-Blue Ridge pusher siding, for heavy 
lifting WB to the gap at Blue Ridge, was at Irving, about four miles 
east of Montvale.  I know of no shot of action there.  Neither VPI nor 
N&WHS appears to have a photographic record.  Anyone seen or know of an 
Irving shot?

Another teaser:  how about mid-century shots of the Bonsack station and 
nearby water tower, all just up the line EB from Boaz.  Neither of the 
sources above has any as best I can determine.  Warden's volume on Ys 
does have a partial shot of the tower.  I would surely welcome reference 
to a full-dress photo.  VPI has an early 1900s Bonsack station image, 
but by mid-century I think that structure had been torn down and another 
erected on the site.  Any leads as to a pix of the mid-century structure?

Frank Gibson