C&O trackage rights

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Harry,

I seem to recall that the C&O was granted trackage rights into VGN coal 
territory to help appease objections to N&W+VGN.

Grant Carpenter
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On 9/18/2014 12:55 PM, NW Mailing List wrote:
> *Kim:*
> *It's not well known and the special instructions*
> *in N&W timetables aren't that easy to decipher,*
> *but in the 1960s and 70s and maybe continuing*
> *longer, C&O had trackage rights over N&W*
> *from Gilbert to Pemberton.  So if there was*
> *an interruption in service between Thurmond and*
> *Barboursville, it was possible too for the C&O to*
> *detour using Winding Gulf and Guyandot River*
> *branches. Performing an audit, I found no evidence*
> *that C&O had utilized the trackage rights for one*
> *year.  Can't say what C&O's intentions were in*
> *acquiring rights across the N&W.  Harry Bundy*
>
>
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