Rock Depot (?) - Photo of the Grand Union Terminal Station

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Abe

Thanks for posting this very interesting photo.

I have no idea where this station was located.  But I will make a 
guess.  High Rock, VA.  This point was on the Reed Island branch of the 
NC Extension.  I have never found any reference to a Station building at 
this location.  There is nothing in Munsey Webb book about a station at 
this location.  The construction looks a lot like some others on on this 
branch.

The station at Rock, WV was a shelter shed type 12x27.  We have a photo 
of this one in the archives. This would seem to eliminate WV.

I hope we have a good Radford Division person that can give us guidance.

Jim


On 12/21/2023 10:31 AM, NW Mailing List wrote:
> Bro. Yoszip Lambert found this photo of the depot in a place called Rock... a place of which I had never heard
>
> The 1910 Topo Map shows Rock as being about 7 miles due north of Bluefield, W.Va. But the 1942 N&W List of Officers, Agents, Stations, Water Tanks, Stock Pens and Slop Chutes shows Rock as a non-agency, the governing agency for which was Montcalm. (Which very likely means the depot structure shown here had been moved, or to use the trendy word, "repurposed.") The 1942 List also shows Rock as located on the Widemouth Branch of the Bluestone Extension.
>
> My burning question pertains to that monster, roofed vertical box to the left of the door at which the men are standing, the likes of which I have never before seen. What could have been the purpose of that thing? It is too big for a Bill Box or a T-Box.
>
> This joint looks a little to grand for a country depot in a coal-holler, so my Guess #2 is that the building is actually at Hanging Rock, Ohio, on the Tadpole Fast Line Division about 20 miles east of Ports'muff and the word "Hanging" just does not show in the photograph.  We need one of the Old Wise Men to stagger forth from his cave, and speak...
>
> -- abram burnett
>     Curious Turnip
>
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