Wharncliffe

[NW Mailing List]

I just re-verified my recollections via Google Earth. CSX goes as far as what looks like an active loadout north of town on WV-80. The track just south of the loadout is severed and crossings paved over at a couple locations on WV-80 and US-52. And the connecting track at the old yard in Gilbert looks like it is just used for MOW equipment storage. There is a shopping center on part of the old yard now too.
-T. Nolen, Tampa, FL.

---- NW Mailing List <nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org> wrote: 
> The CSX still gets up to Gilbert. 
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> I grew up downriver at Man. Somewhere back in the 60's I remember hearing a train horn that resembled the N&W. The C&O used ALCO RSD's at the time. I ran down the street where I could see the tracks, and was very surprised to see an N&W passenger train going downriver on the C&O rails! The connection at Gilbert had been used, and the diversion was needed for something. A wreck? I never knew. Nothing in the news about it. 
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> Kim 
> Huntsville, AL 
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> Sent: Wednesday, September 17, 2014 10:34:00 AM 
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> If I remember right, the connection to the C&O at Gilbert is severed, there is a shopping center there now, the bridge over the river does not connect to the N&W anymore, and IIRC the rails over the road were taken up too. I am not sure how close to Gilbert CSX even serves anymore. 
> -Troy Nolen, Tampa, FL. 
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