Station drawings

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We have ICC Valuation Notebooks at the Archives. They are labeled as to
location and content and are generally structured around Division and
State. As an example Series 16VA for the Clinch Valley Line runs from
Graham Jct to Norton. There are 7 notebooks in the16VA series and they are
individually labeled. Structure Volumes normally refer to bridges. Building
volumes refer to Buildings. The one I have found to be useful are the
structures and building volumes. There are about 2800 hundred page of hand
written notes, filled out forms and some narratives. The Buildings Volume
has 600 pages.



There are few sketches/drawings of structures in the volumes. What you get
are dimensions, type of structure, age and some other data. Example
attached.



The challenge to using the ICC books are finding the series you want. As an
example Series 11WVA runs from Glen Lyn to Bluefield and it is the portion
of the Radford Div that is in WV. Series 13WVA is labeled from Bluefield to
Williamson, but does not include the approximate 5 mile segment of the
railroad in Virginia between Bluefield, VA to beyond Flat Top Yard. That
segment is include in Series 14VA which also includes Pocahontas.



There will be a story on ICC Valuations in 2015 in either eTAF or the Arrow
depending on the length.



One of our projects at the Archives is to develop a high level index to the
ICC Valuations. For example an index can be a simple as:



Series 16VA – Graham Jct to Norton – Structures Vol 2 of 2 – Branch Line
Bridges – Approximately 200 pages

Series 16VA – Graham Jct to Norton – Buildings – Account Numbers 16, 17,
18, 20 and 27 – Approximately 600 pages



The first step is to simply determine what the Division/Location series
applies to. Good job for a first time volunteer.



Alex Schust


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*From:* NW-Mailing-List [mailto:nw-mailing-list-bounces at nwhs.org] *On
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To further Alex's statement, which are good, I've snipped out most of his
comments.

On Nov 18, 2014, at 9:16 AM, NW Mailing List wrote:



<<snip>>In all cases the structures were to be built according to plans and
dimensions provided by N&W. <<snip>.This would lead us to believe that
drawings existed at one time.



This is indeed the case. I acquired copies of these drawings about 40 years
ago. Drawing M-382, Size and Capacities of Stations, dated August 8, 1916
is a single sheet comparison of station sizes, comparing various square
foot size fo Waiting Rooms, Baggage Rooms, Express Rooms, compared to
population from 1910. This is not an exhaustive list, by any means. But
lists 23 locations, and the plan number to which they were built. Examples
would be Waverly, Va, plan 9556 Rev, Martinsville, Y7427, Shawsville 9473,
Wytheville Y-2263. Farmville Y-3569, etc.



Another drawing, M-390, Station Improvements for 1917, dated September 27,
1916, listing 17 different stations, a few plans are listed, but a column
of "type" also tells a bit of a story, Marion (freight) is the Pulaski
type, Narrows (pass and freight) is the Shawsville type, Dennis (pass and
freight) is 2nd class type, measuring 24x76x16, plan L-145, as is Starkey
and Price. The list goes on.



Both of the drawings M-382 and M-390 are likely to be part of the upcoming
book on N&W stations by myself and Tim Hensley.


<<snip>>

Structural data can be obtained from the ICC Valuation Note Books. While
they are not indexed, we generally know where to go to find pertinent
information.



The ICC valuation files at the National Archives, while voluminous and
detailed, seem to have very, very few drawings, some sketches, but are
mostly raw data which takes a huge amount of time to go through.



Fortunately, when the N&W was originally built there were no communities
and so therefore there was no required permitting process. However, we
don’t know what was required when a station was rebuilt.



I suspect that most communities in the era really had minimal requirements
and a very limited staff to enforce construction, even up into the 1930s,
I'd suspect.


Ken Miller
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