611 and Kinney Connection

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Gordon:
I had inquired in 2013 with the local boys on yahoo group CentVaRailList
about this subject - and was there a marker there. Aubrey  W. replied:

Around 1960, I walked around the wye from Montview Tower to see what you
ask. I thought of getting a picture of the eb Tennessean passing such a
marker, but there wasn't one, at least that I could see.

Then Garland Harper posted this photo looking toward N&W on the connection::
http://throbbingunits.rrpicturearchives.net/showPicture.aspx?id=2523610
(and look at the album that this photo is in)

I hope this helps.
Charlie Long

On Wed, Jun 3, 2015 at 1:39 PM, NW Mailing List <nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org>
wrote:

> This past Saturday while waiting for 611 to arrive at Kinney in Lynchburg,
> VA, where it would take on water and board passengers for Roanoke, several
> of us speculated where the SOU and N&W track limits were between Montview
> wye on the SOU and Kinney wye on the N&W in pre-NS days.
>
> The attached excerpt from a Jan. 1, 1982, N&W track diagram shows that the
> demarcation was south of the Rt. 29A and 460 underpass, or ca. Lat 37 22 32
> N and Lon 79 10 19 W on Google Earth.  On both the track chart and Google
> Earth an N&W siding can be seen extending beyond the demarcation and around
> the south (compass direction) leg of the wye at Montview to reach some
> industries.  The track seen in Google Earth extending around the north leg
> of the wye at Montview, apparently to serve other industries, appears to
> have been installed after the date of the track chart.
>
> Gordon Hamilton
>
> Moderator:
>
>  http://nwhs.org/mailinglist/2015/20150603.KinneyConnection.jpg
>
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