Photo - unknown location

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Thanks Herman, Jeff, and Harry.



I suspected this was Petersburg but wanted to confirm. I take it Broad
Street Station was reached by the ACL trackage shown going to the left,
correct? Was there a point in time when the diamond was removed but the ACL
and N&W still made connection here?



John Garner


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> Appears to be the crossing of ACL's OLD MAIN LINE at
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> Petersburg.  *The Cannonballs (*with N&W crews) used the
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> Old Main Line Petersburg to North Dunlop, ACL's double
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> track route to the James River, and RF&P to Richmond's
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> Broad Street Station.  Before abandonment, the Old Main
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> Line climbed a hill, ran down the center of Washington St.
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> for several blocks and reconnected with the present align-
> ment just north of the I-85 overhead bridge.  Harry Bundy
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