Montvale-Pamplin Double Track

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In a message dated 10/11/2011 8:41:33 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,  
nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org writes:

When was the double track removed between  Montvale and Pamplin?  Was this 
accomplished in one single project or in  various phases over time?  
 
Jeff Hawkins
 
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Jeff-   The only firm date I can give you is May 28, 1980.  ICC  authorized 
abandonment from Mile Post N-195.98 to Mile Post 201.18.   If you consider 
the Old Main Line and the Lynchburg Belt Line to be  double track, this part 
was on the Old Line between Leptic and a quarry east  of the James River. 
Between Concord and the quarry, the track had already been  retired. Then 
there's 03/30/65. This was the date No. 92 collided with a  westbound hopper 
train entering the double track at Montvale (MP N-239), so  the 
single-tracking had started sometime between 1961 and that date. Kinda  interesting, but 
as the Old Line became fragmented -first between Ito and  Durham Jct., N&W 
rerouted passenger trains to the Belt Line and built a  depot at Kinney Yard. 
Prior to that time, the passenger stop at Lynchburg  was at Union Station, 
which at one time jointly served C&O.  Although  the employee timetable 
recognized the stop as "Kinney ("Lybg. Pass. Sta."),  the public timetables 
showed  "U.  Sta."                                           Harry Bundy
 



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