early N&W operation in Washington, DC ??

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The Washington Extension was well located. Surveys even included 
alternate routes. I will attach two files showing each end. The plan was 
to use the B&P station which was then located on the mall in Washington 
as neither Potomac Yard or Union Station then existed. Preliminary 
passenger   business was built up using a B&O routing to Shenandoah 
Junction, then southward. After PRR control of N&W, this route was 
finally killed, after delayed by financial difficulties which the N&W 
suffered in the mid-1890s.

Mason Cooper

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In a message dated 11/8/2011 9:40:59 P.M. Eastern Standard Time, 
nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org writes:

    N&W proposed to build their own line to Washington sometime around
    the period to which you refer. It would have come off the Shenandoah
    Valley line and run basically due east to Washington. This never
    came about, but could it account for the references you have
    seen?       Jim Nichols

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    Were they considering being a part of the Pot Yard consortium and
    either pulled out or were eliminated for some reason? Lots of
    questions but no real clues here.

    Bob Cohen

   Expanding on Jim Nichols' reply -- the system map of 1891 (a fold-out 
in Mason Cooper's SV
   book), shows the proposed route to Washington diverging  from the 
Shenandoah Valley line
   at Front Royal.  Can't vouch for the accuracy -- maybe it was just a 
process of placing tape
   from Front Royal to D. C., but the map shows N&W crossing Southern 
Rwy. near Manassas
   Gap, the W&OD, the Potomac River, and entering D. C. on the west 
side, dodging Alex-
   andria.

Potomac Yard ?  It didn't become a reality until 1906.   Harry Bundy

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