Shenandoah Junction questions

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Rick is correct about the crossing. There was a roadbed built that was to
cross the B&O at grade, but it never had rail on it. This was done before
the Shenandoah Valley project was "revived" and construction was actually
begun. (It was much cheaper to prepare roadbed than purchase rails with
meager funds. In the winter you can still see traces of this roadbed in the
field located to the east of the N&W and north of the B&O.)

Mason Cooper





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> First, the Shenandoah Valley RR/N&W never crossed the B&O main line at

grade at Shenandoah Junction.  From newspaper archives I have studied from
the 1880 period, the SV crossed the B&O on a trestle. The story is that B&O
was vehemently opposed to SV crossing their railroad at all because B&O had
their own design on building a railroad into the valley.

>From local lore I have heard that SV put the trestle spanning the B&O 

>in

place on a Sunday when B&O could not get a court order to stop them.  On the
north side, SV track approached on high ground, and on the south side a long
wood trestle was the approach to the crossover.  After N&W bought the SV,
the long approach was back filled.  The interchange tracks into the station
were maintained to mainline standards.  Nothing is interchanged there today,
as CSX routes all NS interchange traffic through Hagerstown.

The Shenandoah Jct station remained open approximately a year or two after
the last N&W passenger service ended May 19, 1962. One B&O passenger train,
a westbound, was still scheduled to stop there. If my memory is correct, the
station was demolished by 1964.  It was the original SV structure, but the
exterior is evidence of the 1909 remodelling.  Check out photos on the
Virginia Tech website.

--Rick Morrison

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> All:

> Do we know both when the long-familiar Shenandoah Junction depot was 

> uilt and when it was dismantled? It had that familiar Shenandoah alley 

> "cookie-cutter" type look to it, as I remember from the photos  have 

> seen.

> Bob:

> N&W's 1919 annual report lists several passenger and freight stations 

> that were built or remodeled.  Shenandoah Jct. is mentioned, but it 

> does't define the work accomplished.  Maybe you know; maybe you don't, 

> but Shenadoah Jct. is NOT on the Roanoke-Hagerstown main line.  A lead 

> veers to the east north of MP H-215 and drops down to the B&O level.  

> The distance from MP H-215 to MP H-217 is only 6,716 feet.  There is 

> no MP

> H-216 on the main line, but there is one on the lead to the B&O, so 

> apparently the old main line went into Shenandoah Jct. and crossed the

> B&O at grade at one time.                      Harry Bundy

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