Cut at Oakvale

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Louis,
  Thanks for the info. The cut did look like a better choice but couldn't
understand when it might have been done. Didn't think about it in relation
to the Kellysville connection upgrades.

- Roger


On Tue, Jul 1, 2014 at 11:04 AM, NW Mailing List <nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org>
wrote:

>
> As I recall, The material excavated from the cut was used to build the
> fill portions of the Kellysville connection in 1960 following the
> N&W-Virginian merger.  The plans called for the relocation of the N&W main
> line into the new cut and thereby reduce the curvature at that location,
> but that part of the project was never carried out.
>
> Louis Newton
>
>
I have noticed this "cutoff" just east of Oakvale for sometime on the N&W
>> tracks. In winter months you can see the west end clearly. Bing aerial
>> views appears to show this as clean cut that track could have used at one
>> time. In the attached image, north is on left (rotated view via bing for
>> better lighting of cut).  Anybody have any clues to the history of this
>> cut? Was it just an early route that was later changed perhaps?
>>
>> This location is just railroad east of the large VGN bridge over route
>> 112 at Oakvale (bridge over fire station).
>>
>> - Roger Link
>>
>> Moderator:
>>  http://nwhs.org/mailinglist/2014/20140630.oakvale.jpg
>>
>
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