Affiliated Short LInes

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Best to approach the Tunnel site from the Virginia side via Damascus. Map
attached.
- Mike Pierry, Jr.

On Dec 5, 2007 4:54 PM, NW Mailing List <nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org> wrote:


>  Where is this spot on Hwy 133 in TN ?? To unusual to not look it up when

> traveling in that region.

> Thanks in advance for the info.

>

>     OAKIE G. FORD

>     IRONTON, OH

>

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> *From:* NW Mailing List <nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org>

> *To:* NW Mailing List <nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org>

> *Sent:* Wednesday, December 05, 2007 7:48 AM

> *Subject:* RE: Affiliated Short LInes

>

> Ed:

> Nice article in Trains.

>

> George Weber

>

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> nw-mailing-list-bounces at nwhs.org] *On Behalf Of *NW Mailing List

> *Sent:* Tuesday, December 04, 2007 11:40 PM

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> *Subject:* Re: Affiliated Short LInes

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>  What Picture?

>

> EdKing

>

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> *Sent:* Tuesday, December 04, 2007 8:59 PM

> *Subject:* Affiliated Short LInes

>

> Some recent mention of the Marion and Rye Valley RR on the Mailing List

> induced me to sent this message for whatever interest it may have to someone

> who doesn't know about these items already.

>

> In the course of looking through N&W Ry. Annual Reports (available on a CD

> through the NWHS Commissary) I found it interesting that the N&W had

> invested in a couple of Southwest Virginia short lines thru bond ownership,

> i. e., the Marion and Rye Valley RR, which connected to the N&W's Bristol

> line at Marion, VA, and the Beaver Dam RR, which connected to the N&W's

> Abingdon Branch through an N&W branch out of Damascus, VA.

>

> The attached picture of a Beaver Dam RR tunnel through Backbone Rock now

> used by Tennessee Highway 133 is interesting.  The story is that after the

> tunnel was completed and the track laid, it was discovered that the

> locomotive's smokestack would not clear the roof of the tunnel, so the roof

> had to be hand chiseled for clearance.  The result seems to be evident in

> the picture.

>

> Gordon Hamilton

>

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