More Pepper pics (westbound)

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Hey Bruce,  I meant to reply to you yesterday, but we didn't have any
electricity in the late afternoon/ evening!

 I don't think I have ever seen that photo of the Pepper station. I think
there is a nice map drawing in the archives of the track configuration,
road crossing with station that I had flattened years ago over at GOB east.
I seem to remember staring at it one saturday.
This pic is of the station cool. That is a decent size station.
I'd guess the tower at Cowen was probably opened when the Radford Army
Ammunition plant was being built 1940-41 ?
I have a pic of the switch and signal of the entrance to RAAP on the
Montgomery county side, below Pepper at the bridge. It's somewhere here.

best regards
 rob ervine
Fairlawn VA
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On Thu, Jun 26, 2025 at 12:42 PM NW Mailing List <nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org>
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> On Thu, Jun 26, 2025 at 7:10 AM Rob wrote:
>
>> Continuing with the Pepper area theme, there isn't a lot of room there.
>> Westbound Ringling brothers circus back in the day. (04/15/2015) Seems
>> like yesterday.
>>  I didn't even know the train wasn't even NS powered that day.
>>
>
> Nice photos, thanks for sharing. Pepper is an interesting location in that
> there isn't much there. The location was long important as the site of a
> ferry across the New River, providing a connection from Montgomery County
> and points east with Pulaski County on a track north of the Wilderness
> Road. The river was bridged in 1939 but the road to the east to Blacksburg
> was unimproved.
>
> The rail line was the low-grade line built to move traffic off the
> original line over Schooler Hill into Radford. What's interesting is the
> large station that was built, pretty much in the middle of nowhere, at
> Pepper -- two stories with a residence for the agent. What was the need for
> this station, other than as an enlarged "tower" to handle traffic to and
> from the single-track Pepper/Cowan tunnel. When did the tower at Walton
> come on line? What about Cowan?
>
> While looking for info about the Pepper's Ferry bridge, I did find this
> tidbit that leads to the question -- where does one store a bridge?
>
> *Southwest Times*, Volume 25, Number 222, 9 November 1930, pg. 5
>
> *Permit Action Delayed Week*
>
> Decision by the Federal power commission on the application of a permit
> for the Appalachian Power company dam, which had been announced as probably
> to be made Thursday, will not be made for a week or ten days, it was stated
> at the office of the commission in Washington yesterday.
>
> Reports current in this section that the Federal power commission had made
> its decision in the dam case and would announce this decision after the
> election were denied by a dispatch from Washington. The commission stated
> to the correspondent at Washington that the decision would not finally be
> made for a week or ten days.
>
> Vice President Claytor of the Appalachian Electric Power company, here in
> connection with the land condemnation cases, said that he expected actual
> work to be started within four or five weeks. The Appalachian company is
> reported to have bought from the Norfolk & Western the old railroad bridge
> that has been in storage since a new structure replaced it at its former
> location over New river leading to the Pepper tunnel. This bridge is
> expected to be used at the dam site, where a track will be laid from the
> quarry line to carry supplies and materials.
>
>
> Bruce in Blacksburg
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