N&W in 1907 -- Double Track

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The N&W was doubletracked from Norfolk to Portsmouth, Ohio, with the
exception of where there were "belt lines" and a very few single track
sections related to tunnels, etc. such as at Pepper.

Like the Southern were some main line double track was removed beginning
around 1962 (and traffic has required that some of this be put back) the
N&W did the same thing and now has alternating single and double track
sections except from around Bonsack to Walton (and possibly a few other
sections) which remained double tracked for the past 100 years or so.

   Ray Smoot

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>     It is stated that the Norfolk division from Lambert's Point to 

> Lynchburg will soon be double tracked, the double line from the coal 

> fields to Lynchburg having already been contracted for.


Does this mean that, Like Southern Ry. and so many other railroads, that

the N&W removed parts of it's double track some time in the past?  I 
know that the line between Roanoke & Lynchburg today alternated between 
single and double track, but I haven't run over it enough to notice 
whether it is graded for two tracks all the way.

Kenneth Rickman
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