signals and peanuts

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Thanks Bill and Harry.  In looking at Google maps, it appears that there
was a wye North of Petersburg at Woodlawn.  The SW leg continues down to
Ettrick (Harry is this the newer ACL bypass you mentioned?).   The SE leg
appears to have run down along I95 and crossed the river on a bridge whose
supports are still in place, and then into what appears might have been
another wye at the station.  Was this now-removed section from the station
to Woodlawn the route the N&W Canonball would have taken to Richmond?
Would the photo in front of the peanut plant have been taken near the
current grade crossing with 5th street?
Jim

On Thu, Jan 19, 2017 at 4:48 PM, NW Mailing List via NW-Mailing-List <
nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org> wrote:

>
>
>
> On 1/19/2017 10:11 AM, NW Mailing List wrote:
> > In this picture of the 608:
> > http://www.ebay.com/itm/ORIG-SLIDES-Norfolk-Western-J-1-
> class-4-8-4-608-at-Roanoke-Two-original-Gray-/162357421872?hash=
> item25cd41a730:g:rGEAAOSwZQRYeXAu
> >
> Believe Petersburg IS correct.  The color light signal is at the crossing
> of N&W
> and ACL's Old Main Line just east of the Petersburg depot.  Sometime in
> the early
> 20th Century, ACL by-passed the city  with the Petersburg passenger stop
> for through
> trains actually being located in Ettrick.  South of the crossing, ACL
> served various
> customers, ran down the middle of Washington Street and re-connected with
> the
> new line near Exit 65 on I85.
> Harry Bundy.
>
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