CSX reroutes..

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I believe this may explain the train I saw. If the train left CSX at Glasgow (Balcony Falls on CSX) it would have traveled south on the Shenandoah Valley line to Roanoke and then west through Christiansburg on its way to WV to follow the old Virginian Railway to the Winding Gulf Branch. Thanks for sharing this information. 

    Raymond Smoot

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>From the "NS_CSX_Appalachia" yahoo list... Don't explain the train in 

C-burg, but gives information..
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On Wednesday afternoon, the 17th, CSXT requested to operate an empty coal 
train over NS due to flash flooding. Several sections of CSXT's Piney Creek 
Sub. between Prince and Raleigh, W.Va., received extensive damage. CSXT 
requested to run the train from the connection with the NS Shenandoah 
District at Glasgow, Va., (Balcony Falls on the old C&O)to Amigo, W.Va., on 
the Winding Gulf Branch. Presumably this train would load at East Gulf and 
return east via NS. Piney Creek must have been a real torrent coming down 
the gorge. It undercut the track in several places and covered a bridge. In 
one place the water was running between the rails like a log flume! Looks 
like it will take several trains of rip rap and ballast to do the job. I 
hope CSXT has it repaired by late next week when we have the C&O Modeller's 
Weekend at Hawks Nest.

Everett Young
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Information relayed to NW list by Andy Jennings..


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> Did anything happen that would require detouring a CSX train off its home

> road?

>

> Bob McKell

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> This evening at 8pm a solid CSX hopper train went west through

> Christiansburg.  It consisted of four CSX engines and about 100 CSX round

> bottom hoppers.   Having watched trains at Christiansburg for about thirty

> years, I have never seen a complete train from another railroad.  Does

> anyone know anything about this? Is this as uncommon as I believe it to 

> be?

>

>      Raymond Smoot

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