Clarification of aerial view by Rick Johnson - Fw: Fw: Fw: Only a memory! N&W Forest, Va. Station leveled.

Sat Apr 7 11:49:21 EDT 2018

Rick Johnson's memory of the N&W Forest, Va. station.

Norris Deyerle

Blue Ridge Chapter, National Railway Historical Society Chairman of Virginia's Rail Heritage Region Partners and

Lynchburg Rail Day 2018 Model Train Show Coordinator

744 Chinook Place

Lynchburg, Virginia 24502-4908

Cell: 434-851-0151

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From: Rick Johnson - Blue Ridge Chapter, NRHS <notch8 at aol.com>
Sent: Friday, April 6, 2018 10:29 AM
To: NORRIS DEYERLE; Richard McClintock
Cc: Herb Edwards
Subject: Re: Fw: Fw: Only a memory! N&W Forest, Va. Station leveled.

Richard,

Just to clarify...

  *   "A" is an old store, now "Rick's Antiques" and still extant.
  *   "B" is the N&W station that was just demolished.
  *   I can't address "C" as the letter is not on the image although an additional "highlighted" area is, that I assume to be "C".
  *   As far as I know, there was NEVER a turntable at Forest. If needed, locomotives were turned with an additional leg of a wye between the old main line and the belt line, which was removed years ago.
  *   There was a wooden overhead road bridge just east of the station ("B") that was also removed years ago. The abutments remain.

Hope this helps,

Rick

Rick Johnson
President
Blue Ridge Chapter
National Railway Historical Society
104 Mowry Lane
Lynchburg, VA 24502
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On 4/5/2018 6:58 PM, NORRIS DEYERLE wrote:
Great info from this aerial view! Thanks Richard!

Norris Deyerle
Blue Ridge Chapter, National Railway Historical Society Chairman of Virginia's Rail Heritage Region Partners and
Lynchburg Rail Day 2018 Model Train Show Coordinator
744 Chinook Place
Lynchburg, Virginia 24502-4908
Cell: 434-851-0151
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From: Richard McClintock <trainsasachild at gmail.com><mailto:trainsasachild at gmail.com>
Sent: Thursday, April 5, 2018 6:50:37 PM
To: NORRIS DEYERLE
Subject: Re: Fw: Only a memory! N&W Forest, Va. Station leveled.

This aerial shot from Google may help quell the confusion. A is the depot that just got torn down, shown in the archival plan Y1158. B is a separate building, seen in the second archival plan (Y-7589), not the same thing as the demolished depot - apparently still being used, since there are trucks parked beside it. C is the "Proposed Section Foreman's House" or another one shaped just like it in the exact same place, also shown on Plan Y-7589. The "Overhead Bridge" probably connected the road that comes down to the triangular intersection, just above and east of building B, to the matching vertical road to the south, just out of the frame at the bottom. Both surviving roads are in the same place relative to Building B as the bridge is on the plan. The switches and multiple tracks are still much like their early state, although I see no trace of the turntable any more.

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On Thu, Apr 5, 2018 at 10:06 AM, NORRIS DEYERLE <RAILCOW at msn.com<mailto:RAILCOW at msn.com>> wrote:
Interesting discussion on the Forest, Va. N&W station. Thanks to all for their input.
Norris

Norris Deyerle
Blue Ridge Chapter, National Railway Historical Society Chairman of Virginia's Rail Heritage Region Partners and
Lynchburg Rail Day 2018 Model Train Show Coordinator
LRD 2018 Saturday August 11, 2018
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Lynchburg, Virginia 24502-4908
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Jeff

I’ve studied this one a fair amount, and have come up with no absolute definitive answer.

In annual report No. 11, for the year ending June 30, 1907, it reports:

Passenger Stations and freight depots were built or enlarged at Luray, Williamson, Ironton, Colley Avenue, Norfolk; Church Road, Rice, Prospect, Winfall, Brookneal, Helena, Forest, Lowry, Rileyville, Boones Mill, Ferrum, Price, Stoneville, Walkertown, Chilhowie, Meadow View, Ainwick, Chattaroy, Peebles, Sardinia and Glen Jean.

Now, nothing is reported after that initial thing, but the design of Forest is what I call the 1914 standard from Standards Drawing L - 295, issued June 1914.

>From the N&WHS archives, it seems the depot was originally on the south side of the tracks in this drawing from 1899:
http://www.nwhs.org/archivesdb/detail.php?ID=155903

>From this drawing, the shape of the station is opposite of what was there, dated 1908. I have no idea of where the overhead bridge compares to today, I’m kind of assuming that it was a just east of the depot, but there appears to be virtually no trace of it today.

http://www.nwhs.org/archivesdb/detail.php?ID=153640

I assume it is possible that the station burned sometime between 1907 and 1917 and was replaced with the newer design, but usually those things were reported in the Annual Report in those days.

Ken Miller

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> Can anyone confirm what year the Forest station was built?
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