Affiliated Short LInes

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Mr. King,I noticed that there is a jpeg attached to Mr. Hamilton's post.
I've been to Backbone state park on several occasions with our Boy Scout
troop repelling off the rock formations to the east and west of the tunnel
pictured.  I was unaware of the history of this tunnel, thanks.
 
R.D. Williams
 
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What Picture?
 
EdKing
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Some recent mention of the Marion and Rye Valley RR on the Mailing List
induced me to sent this message for whatever interest it may have to someone
who doesn't know about these items already.
 
In the course of looking through N&W Ry. Annual Reports (available on a CD
through the NWHS Commissary) I found it interesting that the N&W had
invested in a couple of Southwest Virginia short lines thru bond ownership,
i. e., the Marion and Rye Valley RR, which connected to the N&W's Bristol
line at Marion, VA, and the Beaver Dam RR, which connected to the N&W's
Abingdon Branch through an N&W branch out of Damascus, VA.
 
The attached picture of a Beaver Dam RR tunnel through Backbone Rock now
used by Tennessee Highway 133 is interesting.  The story is that after the
tunnel was completed and the track laid, it was discovered that the
locomotive's smokestack would not clear the roof of the tunnel, so the roof
had to be hand chiseled for clearance.  The result seems to be evident in
the picture.
 
Gordon Hamilton
 
 

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