location - Miles Landing (was Christiansburg Middle Track)

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Is that the abandoned railroad bridge in east Radford at the sharp bend of the new around the golf course?

 

Craig Close   BORHS/C&A Live Steam/FoGFLP/HFRHS

Balimer Merlan

OK: Far West Catonsville

Or: Greater Oella

 

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Ray

That was the old Radford and Southern that extended about 5.7 miles from Radford to Miles or Miles Landing

 

Jim Blackstock


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Miles Branch Connects at 1635 Radford Branch Jct. (Old Radford Southern Company 1903)

	

5.77

Miles (Miles Landing)

VA

 

On 7/10/2023 2:17 PM, NW Mailing List wrote:

Abram,

 

Thank you for some excellent operating related history.  And I fully agree with you: those who never knew the grand institution of railroading, which was largely gone by  the 1960s, have missed the local impact and presence  of railroading.

 

I have a question which I suspect you can answer.  While looking at some N&W maps from the 1940s and 1950s, I noticed a branch line somewhere between Radford and Walton going to a place called Miles on the map.  Having lived in Montgomery County almost 60 years, I have never heard on any place referred to as Miles. Any light you can shed on this, such as where was Miles and why did N&W have branch line to it, would be most insightful.

 

      Ray Smoot

 

 

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