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Jim:
The wye 3.0 miles north of Appomattox Station, Petersburg,
is known as Dunlop -- that's an ACL name.  There's an overhead
bridge there for a highway that connects Old U.S. 1 with I-95.
There's some historical significance to Dunlop -- during the
Battle of Petersburg, passengers from the north terminated
at Dunlap and were relayed to Petersburg by alternate means.
That IS where the Old Main Line and the Petersburg by-pass
connect. 

Yes, The Cannonball, used the Old Main Line from Appomattox
Station to connect with ACL's main line to Richmond.  Numbered
20 and 29 on the ACL, they  was staffed by N&W crews Norfolk -
Richmond.  But as late as 1954, there were six ACL trains that
relayed passengers between Broad Street Station, Richmond and
Appomattox Station in Petersburg, with passengers making a
cross-platform transfer to/from N&W's east-west trains. After
crossing the Appomattox River, the old line roughly parallels
I-95 north.  Can't tell you about 5th Street.    Harry Bundy
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