611 and Kinney Connection

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And Gordon:
Thanks for the track chart. Quite a few changes from '82.
Charlie Long

On Wed, Jun 3, 2015 at 10:50 PM, CW Long <cwlongjr at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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