Stations

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The BEDFORD, VA passenger station still stands.  Fieldstone, quite a 
landmark.  Converted into a restaurant, the structure's interior has 
been gutted and reworked.  But the exterior is virtually as it was, 
minus the "Bedford" station sign now reposing in the N&WHS' Roanoke 
building.

An NS mainline still passes directly in front of the station.

The frame freight house, on the opposite (south) side of the trackage, 
after retirement lasted for many years as a farm supply store.  It was 
torn down in the '90s I believe.

Partial views ('50s) of both depots are on p. 37 of W. Warden's N&W: A 
and J.

I have modeled both depots in N-scale, and I must say they really are 
spiffy.

The only other N&W in-town structures still standing are a steel bridge, 
still in rail service, and two abandoned industrial/commercial coal 
trestles.

Bedford is midway between Roanoke and Lynchburg.

Frank Gibson