NW-Mailing-List Digest, Vol 149, Issue 3 -Lynchburg details

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>        1. Re: Where Did V&T Meet the Southside RR in Lynchburg ?
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>     We know the N&W built their beltline in the 1910-1915 era and kept both it
>     and the Percival's Island routing into the 1960's when it closed the old
>     Union Station and opened the Woodall Rd. facility in 1965 or 1966,
>     abandoning the old route in the process.
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>     I think that covers the questions and bases.
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>     Bob Cohen
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>     To add my two cents worth, I believe that the Lynchburg Belt line was begun a little earlier, in 1905 or 1906 and completed pretty quickly from Forest to Pheobe, near Concord. Lynchburg Union Station was closed in 1964 when N&W opened the Woodall Road facility, but it wasn't torn-down until 1966. Most of the eastern portion of the old N&W mainline was abandoned in the 1960s from east of the Central Virginia Training Center in Amherst County to Concord. A small portion of the track between Pheobe and Concord remained in place until the 1980s or later including the wye with its extremely tight west leg. For a time I believe pulpwood was loaded there near the site of the depot. Of the part of the old mainline west of CVTC, it was not abandoned until the late 1980s (1987 maybe). I remember Island Yard being used for freight car storage in the late 1970s and early 1980s and I vividly recall freight trains running along the portion that paralleled Route 221 in the mid 70s. The wester
 n end of the old line from Forest to just west of the Langhorne Road bridge are still in service as the Halsey Branch. I am not sure when the east leg of the wye at Forest was removed, but it was before my childhood ramblings took me there in the late 1970s, although the right of way was very visible then. All of this being from memory, it is certainly subject to correction. Very respectfully, Ed Burnett
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