AM&O RR - Question about Allegheny Station

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Sat Feb 17 16:31:05 EST 2018


There is a similar photo (NWHS.ORG?) floating around cyberspace of the
Shawsville station. Appears to be same building.
Charlie Long
Lynchburg (in Virginia)

On Feb 17, 2018 11:50 AM, "NW Mailing List" <nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org>
wrote:

> Stephen,
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> This is just a guess:  Alleghany Springs is associated  with Shawsville
> and was located several miles  off the railroad up the South Fork of the
> Roanoke River. Could the station at what we know today as Shawsville have
> then been called Alleghany?   Even today some refer to this area as “ up
> Alleghany.”
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>      Ray Smoot
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> *Subject:* AM&O RR - Question about Allegheny Station
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> I can't find anything in the online archives about this, and will do more
> research at my next opportunity to visit Salem Avenue, but can anyone tell
> me in the meantime about the Alleghany (sic) Station on the AM&O? I'm
> wondering where exactly the Alleghany Station was situated? I am
> attaching two auction photos which show the station in an 1870s stereoview
> by E.& H.T. Anthony Company. This New York stereoview manufacturer sent
> photographers throughout western Virginia and produced several photo sets
> including scenes along the AM&O, Blue Ridge Springs, and so on. I'm
> attaching two images of the stereoview for everyone to see what I'm talking
> about.
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> Stephen Warren
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> Roanoke
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> Moderator:
> http://www.nwhs.org/mailinglist/2018/20180217.AM&
> O%20Allegheny%20Station%20-%20Stereoview.jpg
> http://www.nwhs.org/mailinglist/2018/20180217.AM&
> O%20Allegheny%20Station%20-%20Close%20up.jpg
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