Photo info. Q: (NW Mailing List)

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Geez,
You mean I've gotta scrounge up that many Cal-Scale ATC lost-wax castings in 
HO?  :)

Andre Jackson and/or Lisa Burrows
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> Hey, guys!  The 2120-2161 and 2163-2180 were ALL assigned to Shaffers 

> Crossing and they ALL had the ATC.  (The 2162 was assigned to Bluefield, 

> as were the 2181-2200).  So the 2177 would regularly see service to 

> Hagerstown, Bristol, Bluefield, Crewe-Lamberts Point, and Winston-Salem. 

> Along with all the rest of them.

>

> I'm not familiar with the Buchanan area, but if I remember correctly from 

> my trips down Bluefield Mountain on the old highway, all of those 

> overpasses were little deck girder bridges, no through ones like in that 

> photograph. The bridges on the eastbound main where the loads ran had four 

> girders; the westbound only had two.

>

> EdKing

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>> Good point. Looking again at the photo closely, it does have the ATC box 

>> under the running board, which would fit with the Shenandoah line.

>>

>> Andre Jackson and/or Lisa Burrows

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>>> Plus, the locomotive is one that regularly saw service on the Shenandoah 

>>> line.

>>>

>>> Jim Brewer

>>> Glenwood MD

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>>>>

>>>> I cannot reconcile the details of the photo with any of the bridges

>>>> along the New River or East River. Specifically, the ground dropping

>>>> off behind the road beyond the bridge, and the rock face in the 

>>>> distance

>>>> just do not fit. Evevy place I can think of with the creek on the left

>>>> and the road curving where the train woulde be downhill would have the

>>>> background hill starting right behind the curve of the road.  Along the

>>>> East River, the background hill should be closer and significantly 

>>>> higher.

>>>>

>>>> The nomination of Buchanan is a good one. The major features of the 

>>>> photo

>>>> - the creek on left, the road curving left with a valley beyond - fit 

>>>> the

>>>> location, although many of the details have changed in the years since,

>>>> with the road being paved and the quarry entrances having being 

>>>> modified

>>>> and widened. From the road today, tree growth has hidden the rock face

>>>> from view, at least while the leaves are on, so I can't be 100% 

>>>> certain.

>>>> But I'd wager that rock face is still visible from rail level in the

>>>> winter.  I agree with Jimmy Lisle.

>>>>

>>>> Joe Shaw

>>>> Blacksburg, VA

>>>> http://www.krunk.org/

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