Anyone know where these locations are?

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At 01:06 PM 2/18/2006, you wrote:

>>Lovely Mount

>>New River Depot

>

>As Harry pointed out, this may have referred to the prior to 1880 

>(or so) name of Radford.


Prior to 1887, Radford was known as Central Depot (not New River 
Depot), for being near the midpoint on the original Virginia & Tennessee.

New River Depot (now shown as New River on the Delorme maps) is on 
the other side of the river from Radford. This is where the New River 
Extension to the Pocahontas coal fields joined the main line of the 
original N&W. When the New River Extension was completed in 1883, 
trains coming from Radford had to reverse direction at New River 
Depot after crossing the New River bridge before proceeding up 
Schooler's Hill towards Bluefield and Pocahontas. A small turntable 
was located in New River for turning locomotives. A second curved 
bridge was constructed over the river in 1888 which eliminated the 
need for this reversing move. A photo of the bridges with the village 
of New River on the other side is at

http://spec.lib.vt.edu/imagebase/norfolksouthern/F1/NS3722.JPG

The junction at New River, including the curved bridge were removed 
from service in 1901 after completion of the "low-grade line" through 
Pepper tunnel.

More discussion of New River Depot is contained in the 
NW-Mailing-List Archives at

http://six.pairlist.net/pipermail/nw-mailing-list/Week-of-Mon-20041206/001361.html

Ron Davis