Affiliated Short LInes

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Thanks, Mike. A definite side trip from Damascus probably in the spring.
Charlie Long

-----Original Message-----

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

>Sent: Dec 5, 2007 7:30 PM

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>Subject: Re: Affiliated Short LInes

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>Best to approach the Tunnel site from the Virginia side via Damascus. Map

>attached.

>- Mike Pierry, Jr.

>

>On Dec 5, 2007 4:54 PM, NW Mailing List <nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org> wrote:

>

>>  Where is this spot on Hwy 133 in TN ?? To unusual to not look it up when

>> traveling in that region.

>> Thanks in advance for the info.

>>

>>     OAKIE G. FORD

>>     IRONTON, OH

>>

>> ----- Original Message -----

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

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

>> *Sent:* Wednesday, December 05, 2007 7:48 AM

>> *Subject:* RE: Affiliated Short LInes

>>

>> Ed:

>> Nice article in Trains.

>>

>> George Weber

>>

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>> *From:* nw-mailing-list-bounces at nwhs.org [mailto:

>> nw-mailing-list-bounces at nwhs.org] *On Behalf Of *NW Mailing List

>> *Sent:* Tuesday, December 04, 2007 11:40 PM

>> *To:* NW Mailing List

>> *Subject:* Re: Affiliated Short LInes

>>

>>  What Picture?

>>

>> EdKing

>>

>> ----- Original Message -----

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

>> *To:* N&W Mailing 1List <nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org>

>> *Sent:* Tuesday, December 04, 2007 8:59 PM

>> *Subject:* Affiliated Short LInes

>>

>> 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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