Where ie this pic taken

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Thanks Ken.  I have already purchased the second and third items on your
list  from the Archives.  However, the right of way map (item 2) was last
updated in 1943, and I am interested in the track as it existed from the
50's to abandonment in 1977.  The two drawings (items 1 and 3) are also from
earlier dates and do not show the track in downtown West Jefferson  several
blocks to the east of the depot.


Paul Mandelkern
Winter Park, Florida 

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Paul

Search for West Jefferson in the database turns up these drawings with
detail, the first two are the most detailed the last is a sketch.

https://www.nwhs.org/archivesdb/detail.php?ID=200679

https://www.nwhs.org/archivesdb/detail.php?ID=197687

https://www.nwhs.org/archivesdb/detail.php?ID=96902

All three of these show with varying degrees of detail, the track
arrangement at West Jefferson.

Best

Ken Miller

> On Sep 28, 2020, at 9:45 PM, NW Mailing List <nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org>
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> 
> John, I am designing a model railroad based on the Abingdon Branch 
> between West Jefferson and Damascus in the diesel era. Do you know 
> what the track arrangement was in West Jefferson or where I can find a
map?
> 
> The Radford Division track chart I got from the Society's archives 
> does not show that detail, and none of the maps available from the 
> Archives show it either.  The Museum of Ashe County History does not 
> have such a map. The
> 1968 USGS topo map shows  a spur line crossing 2nd Street at 4th 
> Avenue, but it does not continue into downtown West Jefferson.
> 
> I know there was a wye just north of the West Jefferson depot, but I 
> assume there were also spur tracks to serve the Phoenix (Thomasville) 
> Chair Company and other businesses in downtown West Jefferson.
> 
> Thanks for any help.
> 
> Paul Mandelkern
> Winter Park, Florida
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> I have talked to a friend that lived in the house where the blue car 
> is parked. The house is out of the picture to the right. He says this 
> is Whitetop and the depot was probably torn down when this picture was
taken.
> Looks like maybe early 70s?
> John Baldwin. Lansing NC
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