Another Connundrum for Detective Miller

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There were two tracks between Radford and Walton until the 1960s. It was 
single tracked by the early 1970s between Plum Creek and Walton, a distance 
of about two miles or less.

Bud Jeffries

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> The double track extended from WB, I believe it was, at the New River 

> Bridge

> on the Bristol Line, all the way through Radford to Walton.  Plum Creek

> didn't become a "location" on the railroad until the single trackers 

> decided

> to have the double track end there.

>

> EdKing

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>> At 3:00 AM +0000 11/15/06, "Dr. Watson" wrote:

>>>Okay, Mr. "Sherlock" Miller, here's a true test of your mettle.

>>>

>>>About thirty years ago, Bill Harmon told me this photo was taken near

>>>Plumb Creek.

>>>

>>>What's the story of the photo, the type of engine, the date and the

>>>situation?  And why go to Plumb Creek, of all places, to take a photo?

>>

>> I'd suggest "Plum" Creek as opposed to "Plumb" Creek, but that still

>> doesn't help the matter.  Plum Creek is a "community" on U.S. 11 between

>> Christiansburg and Radford, through which flows the stream of the same

>> name.  The road and the creek wind through some hills before popping out

>> of the bluffs at the east end of Radford, right where the Bristol line is

>> in a hard curve alongside the New River.  Plum Creek goes under the N&W

>> via a nice stone arch bridge before emptying into the river.  There is a

>> vertical rocky hillside on the right side of the tracks (river to the

>> left) as the line runs east to Walton.  The problem is that there is a 

>> CPL

>> just past the bridge controlling the ending of the double track from

>> Radford yard into the single track from there to Walton.  Perhaps at one

>> time the double track continued all the way to Walton, in which case this

>> photo could work.  Still remaining is the reason to go to "Plum[b] Creek,

>> of all places, to take a photo?"

>>

>> Bruce in Blacksburg

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