The Narrows Branch Article

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The last installment of Alex Schust' exhaustive three-part article on 
the N&W Narrows branch in the current  issue of "The Arrow"  mentions 
narrow-gauge railroads, tram roads and Bland County's Boy Scout Camp 
Roland.  I attended Camp Roland as a scout in about 1946, and a hike 
that we took was generally up grade on what had obviously been a 
railroad or tram road roadbed as evidenced occasional railroad crossties 
embedded in the ground on our hiking path.  I recall that we hiked up to 
a fire tower (and a rock pile with rattlesnakes), but I do not recall 
whether we were on the former roadbed the entire distance.

Does anyone (including Alex, of course) have any information on this 
railroad or tram road that operated on the roadbed where we hiked that day?

Camp Roland's GPS coordinates from a website are:

Latitude, Longitude:
37.1784512°, -81.1889843°
Open in Google Maps 
<https://www.google.com/maps/search/?api=1&query=37.1784512%2C-81.1889843>

Gordon Hamilton


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