Arthur VA near Elliston

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The cut east of Arthur is about 250 feet long, and the cut west of
Arthur is more like 500 feet according to Google Earth.  That makes me
think that tunnel 4 was in the cut east of Arthur.  It's all making
sense to me now.

The only thing I wonder about is how they imploded tunnel 4?  They
didn't build a shoofly around it.

Ben Blevins


On 1/3/14, NW Mailing List <nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org> wrote:

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> There is an alternate alignment on the Christiansburg grade at Arthur.

>  I have walked this grade, and it is a very old grade.  My question

> is, is this the remains of an old shoofly track, or is it the original

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> Ben:

> Following is an excerpt from the 5th Annual Report for fiscal year

> ending 6/30/1901:

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> "Tunnel No. 4, west of Shawsville, which was 150 feet long, and

> Tunnel No. 12, hear Willis, which was 90 feet long, have been

> converted into double-track open cuts."

>                                                                      Harry

> Bundy

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