Only a memory! N&W Forest, Va. Station leveled.

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 This aerial shot from Google may help quell the confusion. A is the depot
that just got torn down, shown in the archival plan Y1158. B is a separate
building, seen in the second archival plan (Y-7589), not the same thing as
the demolished depot - apparently still being used, since there are trucks
parked beside it. C is the "Proposed Section Foreman's House" or another
one shaped just like it in the exact same place, also shown on Plan Y-7589.
The "Overhead Bridge" probably connected the road that comes down to the
triangular intersection, just above and east of building B, to the matching
vertical road to the south, just out of the frame at the bottom. Both
surviving roads are in the same place relative to Building B as the bridge
is on the plan. The switches and multiple tracks are still much like their
early state, although I see no trace of the turntable any more.

Richard McClintock (via Norris Deyerle)

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On Wed, Apr 4, 2018 at 9:29 AM, NW Mailing List <nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org>
wrote:

> Jeff
>
>
> I’ve studied this one a fair amount, and have come up with no absolute
> definitive answer.
>
> In annual report No. 11, for the year ending June 30, 1907, it reports:
>
> Passenger Stations and freight depots were built or enlarged at Luray,
> Williamson, Ironton, Colley Avenue, Norfolk; Church Road, Rice, Prospect,
> Winfall, Brookneal, Helena, Forest, Lowry, Rileyville, Boones Mill, Ferrum,
> Price, Stoneville, Walkertown, Chilhowie, Meadow View, Ainwick, Chattaroy,
> Peebles, Sardinia and Glen Jean.
>
> Now, nothing is reported after that initial thing, but the design of
> Forest is what I call the 1914 standard from Standards Drawing L - 295,
> issued June 1914.
>
> From the N&WHS archives, it seems the depot was originally on the south
> side of the tracks in this drawing from 1899:
> http://www.nwhs.org/archivesdb/detail.php?ID=155903
>
> From this drawing, the shape of the station is opposite of what was there,
> dated 1908. I have no idea of where the overhead bridge compares to today,
> I’m kind of assuming that it was a just east of the depot, but there
> appears to be virtually no trace of it today.
>
> http://www.nwhs.org/archivesdb/detail.php?ID=153640
>
> I assume it is possible that the station burned sometime between 1907 and
> 1917 and was replaced with the newer design, but usually those things were
> reported in the Annual Report in those days.
>
> Ken Miller
>
>
>
> > On Apr 3, 2018, at 8:00 PM, NW Mailing List <nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org>
> wrote:
> >
> > Can anyone confirm what year the Forest station was built?
> >
> > Jeff Hawins
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> >
> > Photo courtesy of Roy Evans.
> >
> > Norris Deyerle
> > Blue Ridge Chapter, National Railway Historical Society Chairman of
> Virginia's Rail Heritage Region Partners and
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