"Great Smokey Montain RR"

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Are the tracks that are now being used by the "Great Smokey Mountain RR" any 
part of these branches?
I was told by a GSM employ that he thought that the tracks were part of the 
old N&W system.
Thanks;
 Gene A.


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Subject: North Carolina Branch map..To Mt Airy..



>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

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> 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.

>>

>> 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???

>>>

>>>

>>> 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.

>>>

>>> 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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>>> EdKing

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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.

>>>

>>> 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 

>>> on the spot.

>>>                                                                  Harry 

>>> Bundy

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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 Railway

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

>>> weekends on

>>>  their Santa Claus Trains.

>>>

>>>  Larry Evans

>>>  Kenova, WV

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>>>  http://www.nhvry.org/

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>>>  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sYuf1Kqpwts

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