N&W/Scioto Valley Question

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Eric:  In the Scioto Valley Railway days, there was a wood water tank next
to the creek at Ashville.  If I remember, it stood on the north side of the
creek.  This is from some very old SV Ry photographs that I have.  

 

I do not know when this water tower was abandoned, but probably in the
'teens as you suspect or around the time of the building of the double track
segments or the running of the C&O over this line with traffic rights around
1917.  

 

Gary Rolih

Cincinnnati

 

 

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Jim:

If it is not much trouble, we would really appreciate this information. We
both have high speed connection so the download will not be an issue.

We've established that "Cromley" was the end of double track on the Scioto
Valley up until at least 1914 (from the Ohio Rail Maps). It also seems there
was some sort of water station just south (railroad east) of the bridge over
the Little Walnut Creek just south of Ashville, Ohio. Cromley, by the topo
maps, was basically a crossing of a farm lane over the tracks, no sort of
community ever existed per se, but one would assume some sort of block
office or tower was there.  So any information from this time period would a
big help to our investigation. 

Our sincere thanks for your help in this area Jim.

Regards,

Eric Davis






On 10/5/07, NW Mailing List < nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org
<mailto:nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org> > wrote:



>Jim:

>

>Ah, now we are getting somewhere! Whit and I are both trying to 

>figure this out as we are from the Ashville area.

>

>Does that 1909 timetable show anything (water stop, end of double

>track, etc...) at Cromley? Could it have been the end of Bells

>Siding? Any details (or even a scan of this TT) would be really helpful! 

>

>Thanks...

>

>Eric


Eric and Whit

Not much information in public timetables other than station names. I
do have a scan of the May 27, 1906 N&W Virginia and Ohio Lines
timetable from the Official Guide in my computer files. Ashville, 
Duvalls, Lockbourne and Reeses are the only stations listed between
Circleville and Vallley Xing.  I can send this as a 1.48 MB .bmp file
if you would like a copy.

Also will check the employee timetables in the archives next week. 
Perhaps they will have additional info.

Jim Blackstock
james.blackstock at verizon.net




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