Suggestions Visiting WV/VA/MD

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We only have a very limited number of days to sightsee and I'd like to
focus on the natural environment where N&W was running. In addition, we
would also like to visit Cass Scenic Railroad. We'll be traveling via
Frederick, MD, on our way to Richmond (or also on the way back) and
we'll detour, of course, both coming and going.

Hakan

On Sat, 17 Jul 2010 13:01:44 -0400, NW Mailing List wrote:


>Just off the top of my head, although not exclusively N&W, since you're

>covering three states:

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>Hagerstown MD; interesting yard area and a museum.  And the whole Shenandoah

>Valley from Roanoke to Hagerstown

>Princeton WV; yard, reproduction VGN depot.

>Roanoke: NWHS archives if open, and as noted VMT and OWL.

>VGN from Mullens up to Deepwater/VACO or (my personal favorite)up the

>Winding Gulf (N&W after 1959 of course), and from Mullens west to Gilbert

>(the only place served by all three Pochahontas roads IIRC)

>COHS archives and Heritage Center in Clifton Forge, VA (okay; it's not N&W,

>but it's still interesting, I think).

>Beckley, including the Exhibition Coal Mine.

>And, depending how far you're going in MD, there's Cumberland and the WM

>Scenic, and the B&O museum in Baltimore (again, not N&W but still worth

>seeing, I think).

>

>And for mines, grab some of the reference material on Southern WV and a big

>map.  Depending on your endurance, there's a lot to try to jam in two

>weeks.  Have fun.  Take a picture or two.

>

>Frank Bongiovanni

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>On Sat, Jul 17, 2010 at 8:04 AM, NW Mailing List

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>> Pocahontas Division from Bluefield to Willamson WV. Also the Virginia

>> museum of transportation and o Winston link museum in Roanoke

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>> On Jul 16, 2010, at 22:30, NW Mailing List <nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org>

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>> > I am looking for suggestions for significant sites (to someone

>> > interested in N&W) to visit in WV/VA/MD in two weeks. Examples could be

>> > towns, coal mines, other points-of-interests etc. where N&W operated -

>> > I am open to all suggestions.

>> >

>> > TIA.

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