Dunlow station

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The street view feature of Google Maps doesn't show a good image of the station.  That back road you mention is the former railroad road bed.  It is used as a secondary road that many houses are now built along.  It is not continuous as many bridges have been either barricaded or removed.  And the tunnel at Genoa has flooded.  The state DOT has built a lot of connectors back to 152 where it runs close to the former grade.  One such connector is beside the Dunlow station.

There is this image on the on the VT image database that shows the station in service.  http://spec.lib.vt.edu/imagebase/norfolksouthern/full/ns664.jpeg

The only current image of the Dunlow station I could find on the internet was at a bicyclist's travel blog  http://backroadsofindiana.blogspot.com/2013/06/rrrik-2013-five-day-ride-in-se-kentucky_30.html  It has a decent picture of the station, but is obscured by a lot of brush.  There is a photo of the N&W tunnel at Dingess on that webpage also.  I believe this is the "railroad east" portal.  He also includes photos of two former N&W bridges that are still in service.  These are on Laurel Creek road before it enters Cabwaylingo State Park.  Most of the former railroad bridges in the park have been replaced with modern road bridges.

Hope this helps.

Howard Adkins

  
On Mar 21, 2014, at 6:03 PM, NW Mailing List <nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org> wrote:


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> I had been looking at the satellite images of Dunlow, WV after looking at the article on the Twelve Pole Line in the N&WHS magazine in 1986. (This was years before it became The Arrow). I noticed a station-like building on a back road off WV 152. The street view on Google Maps does not work on the back road, and I have my suspicion that this might be the Dunlow station. This is something that deserves a closer look. I might note as well that in the 1986 article, it was noted that the Dunlow station was being used as a private residence.

> Lois J.Ponton

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