Origin of Switchback

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This is what I said and all the pics and Maps I have studied that’s what it appears to me. See Alex’s reply I am confused 

Larry Evans

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> On Apr 21, 2021, at 9:14 AM, NW Mailing List <nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org> wrote:
> 
> 
> I am under the impression that  Archives photo DS00125 shows a connection that was created to a portion of the old main line (at the higher elevation) during the 1950's re-alignment.  You can view what is left of this if you zoom in on the substation area on Google Maps.  Can anyone confirm or refute?
> Jim Cochran
> 
>> On Wed, Apr 21, 2021 at 12:15 AM NW Mailing List <nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org> wrote:
>> The origin of Switchback goes back to at least 1892, and presumably to
>> the original construction of the Elkhorn Extension.  Before the
>> Construction of the Ohio Extension, the branch down into Maybeury
>> would have been a true switchback off a dead-end branch instead of
>> just another branch off of a mainline track.
>> 
>> Archives drawing HS-H10236, N&W RR drawing 869, shows the word
>> "Switchback" twice. It is applied to the track down to the bottomlands
>> at Maybeury, in the same font as the words "Elkhorn Extension" and the
>> names of various other branches, and also applied to the location
>> between the switch diverges from the Elkhorn Extension main back up
>> -hollow and down-hill to the mines.
>> https://www.nwhs.org/archivesdb/detail.php?ID=146991
>> A small excerpt of the full drawing is attached.
>> 
>> Archives photo DS00125 is the same photo from the 2Q2014 issue of the
>> Arrow that Chris Dalton mentioned, for those not inclined to dig out
>> their back issues.
>> https://www.nwhs.org/archivesdb/detail.php?ID=91333
>> My thinking is that the track probably only reached the substation
>> level and not all the way up to the power plant.
>> 
>> I presume the power plant was directly fed by a nearby mine for its
>> entire active lifetime?.
>> 
>> Joe Shaw
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