Fw: Location of Eggleston Station

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I wonder if anyone else has experienced a little anomaly with TerraServer's 
topo maps (www.terraserer-usa.com).  In checking the situation at Eggleston 
at the second from the highest magnification, it seems to show the old 
low-level bridge over New River and the old bridge over the N&W with its 
right-angle corner, but when the magnification is switched to the 
next-to-the-highest level, it shows the present high-level bridge going 
straight across the river.  Strange.  Can anyone explain this?

Gordon Hamilton

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Subject: Re: Location of Eggleston Station



> I, Gordon Hamilton, received the following from a friend, Reid Garst, who

> grew up in Eggleston and whose father worked on a Virginian line gang 

> there:

>

> Gordon,

>

>    Yes, the N&W Station at Eggleston was between the Rail Tracks and New

> River. Is was about 10 yards upstream of where the old bridge was.   After

> you crossed the bridge from the Virginian side you took a sharp left to go

> up a Ramp /Bridge that crossed the N& W tracks. Once across, you took

> another sharp left on to "Main Street."  Between the Ramp/Bridge and the 

> N&W

> Station was a road that followed the river up stream. There was very 

> little

> spare space between the Ramp/Bridge, the road, and the Station.

>

> Reid