North Carolina Branch map..To Mt Airy..

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I posted this earlier, evidently it was over looked!

http://spec.lib.vt.edu/imagebase/08MAPS/screen/HM200705291009.jpg

If you go to the south side of Galax, you can see where the ROW was graded, 
and some box culverts where installed.

You can trace MUCH of the ROW from Mt Airy, to the state line near Lambsburg 
NC.

Here is a link to a google streetview of part of that ROW, that is now a 
public road, named, "Old Railroad Road"... No rails where ever laid.

http://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&ie=UTF8&ll=36.540132,-80.667484&spn=0,0.006856&z=17&layer=c&cbll=36.540132,-80.667484&panoid=bkIxeIMmisdg_lD8D9oshQ&cbp=12,102.44,,0,15.99

Andy Jennings
Blt 4-74/CN 3



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>A map showing the proposed route of the North Carolina Extension south to 

>the Virginia-North Carolina state line is shown in Rails Remembered, Volume 

>3, on pages 612-613.

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> Louis Newton

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>> On Sat, Nov 27, 2010 at 7:42 PM, Andy wrote:

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>> WOW!!!! Do you have anymore OLD NC branch trackcharts? Perferably Gossan 

>> branch, Reed Island br,   and the Lineberry br???

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>> Scanned and posted here: 

>> http://www.brucebharper.info/nwrwy/NCBranchCharts.html the full set that 

>> I have, that includes the Reed Island Branch and Gossan Mine Spur. The 

>> page is also linked from the Cripple Creek page at 

>> http://www.brucebharper.info/nwrwy/CrippleCreek.html

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>> Bruce in Blacksburg

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>> Maybe you noticed; maybe you didn't, but the track chart showing Galax 

>> and MP 52 has three

>> additional un-numbered mile post and a notation "no track on this right 

>> of way", but it does

>> show degree of curvature.  The Radford Division track charts into the 

>> 70's continued to show

>> the mile posts beyond MP 52.

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>> Louis Newton's book, Rails Remembered  (Volume 2, I think), shows the 

>> proposed route to

>> connect near Lambsburg.  It would have crossed I-77 between MP 3 and MP 

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>> They went from the crossings to laying "78"s in the sharper curves.

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>> One Magazine article that I do remember reading told how the N&W was 

>> welding two 39-foot rails into 78-foot rails to eliminate one-half of the 

>> joints.  I think this was probably preliminary to the first installation 

>> of longer strings of welded rail.

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>> Gordon Hamilton

>>  Many roads installed 78-foot sections in road crossings to avoid 

>> "pumping" caused

>>  by vehicular traffic.  The 78-foot sections were usually "field" welded 

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>> Even though the video in a depiction of the "mouse that roared", it's a 

>> good thing to again hear that sound in the mountains. Thank you for 

>> making it available.

>> Gene A.

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>>  Any members interested in hearing  some N&W  hootering.  New Hope Valley 

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>>  at  Bonsal,NC  will be running the whistle from  Y6b 2173 the next  two 

>> weekends on

>>  their Santa Claus Trains.

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>>  Larry Evans

>>  Kenova, WV

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