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 There has been a request,below, made to the Old Dominion Chapter of the 
NRHS.  Don't know if anybody on the list could help. 


Alan Cox





  
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 From: kimyoungmarshall77 at gmail.com
To: membership at odcnrhs.org
Sent:  1/24/2014 8:05:55 P.M. Eastern Standard Time
Subj: Fwd: Need help with a  RR preservation emergency


I received the message below earlier today. I have no  information which 
might help this gentleman. If any of you do, you may  contact him directly or 
send it to me and I'll forward  it.

Thanks!

Kim



From: Charles Pool  <charles_pool at msn.com>
To: "phfgbs at yahoo.com"  <phfgbs at yahoo.com>,  "kimyoungmarshall77 at gmail.com"
<kimyoungmarshall77 at gmail.com>
Subject: Need help with a RR  preservation emergency
Date: Fri, 24 Jan 2014 15:51:13  -0500
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Dear Old Dominion Chapter  members,

Could your members possibly help us with a RR preservation  emergency?  

You have probably heard about the proposal to  build an amphitheater below 
the War Memorial.  This amphitheater  would not only damage the canal by 
lowering the tow path embankment, but  the railroad tracks on the tow path 
would be removed also.  These  railroad tracks were the Tredegar Branch of the 
Richmond and Danville  Railroad that connected the Tredegar Iron Works with 
Old Dominion Iron and  Nail on Belle Isle.  The stone pylons are still in the 
James River  for the railroad bridge that connected Tredegar with the iron 
works on  Belle Isle.  

The amphitheater site below the canal is all on  the National Register of 
Historic Places as part of the Tredegar Historic  Site.   We are beside 
ourselves that Venture Richmond is  proposing to needlessly destroy the surviving 
Tredegar Branch railroad at  the Tredegar Historic Site.

As you know, the Tredegar Iron Works  made railroad tracks and spikes, and 
it is our belief that these tracks on  the canal tow path may actually have 
been made at Tredegar, which was in  business until 1936.  Would there be 
any surviving records  from the Richmond and Danville Railroad that would 
indicate with whom they  were contracting to make their railroad tracks?  Is 
there any way to  determine from examining the tracks where they were made?

The  amphitheater project is currently being reviewed by the Va. Department 
of  Historic Resources, and we feel that it would make a very big 
difference  if we could document that the tracks were made at Tredegar!

Thanks  so much, 

Charles Pool
(804)  788-0359


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