Route to Convention 2005

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In the mid 80's I had occasion to drive from near Welch to the Bluefield  
airport, which involved mostly US 52.  I told my traveling companion that  it 
would take us about an hour; he expressed bewilderment because it was only  about 
35 miles.  I told him, "you'll see."  We made it in 55 minutes  and he was 
white as a sheet.  I had a ball!  But then, I was raised  around Bluefield and 
he was from Erie, which is flat land or gently rolling  glacier-dump hills.  
Don't let those red lines on the map fool you, believe  the natives.
 
Dave Phelps
 
In a message dated 6/19/2005 5:39:51 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,  
nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org writes:

Having  personal experience just this past Tuesday, be very careful on 
this road.  I was nearly taken out by a semi truck (not a coal truck) on 
a blind  inside curve, he was over the center line by a foot and a half, 
if the van  I was driving had a rear bumper that stuck out, it would 
have been gone,  it was that close.

Pretty much from Gilbert west on 52 is rough  driving, and not very 
rail-scenic

Ken Miller

On Jun 18,  2005, at 8:47 PM, nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org wrote:

> Coming from  Bluefield to Williamson via US 52 will take 3-3-1/2 hours.
> US52 is a  fairly wide two lane over the Elkhorn Grade and over to 
>  Welch.
> North of that especially after leaving the mainline near  Panther, US 52
> is very hilly with a couple of ridge-lines that require  driving up some
> hairpin climbs to get  over.

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