Bedford "Bump" (was Re: Train order signal - Bedford, Virginia)

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On Fri, Jul 27, 2018, at 9:36 PM, Dave wrote:

Harry's parenthetical note about the original main line alignment west of
> Bedford reminds me that when the NWHS 2004 Convention was in Roanoke, Bev
> Fitzpatrick drove the bus that took a group to the D-Day Memorial in
> Bedford.  Coming down the Rt. 460 bypass west of Bedford, he remarked that
> its alignment was partially on the old N&W alignment.
>

OK, the mention of "bypass" threw me as first, since the Bedford bypass is
a little too far south of the tracks and the grades don't work for a rail
line. So I looked at the USGS Historical Map site and found an 1890 map,
that when overlaid on the current map showed a bow to the south in the N&W
tracks approaching Thaxton. A check of the satellite view with Goggle maps
and a 1978 topo map shows that there is still a trace of the original rail
line, a portion of which is now covered by a portion of U.S. 460.

Bruce in Blacksburg

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Bruce Harper

2508 Manchester St.

Blacksburg, VA 24060

540-392-3597
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