Where ie this pic taken

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Paul

Search for West Jefferson in the database turns up these drawings with detail, the first two are the most detailed the last is a sketch.

https://www.nwhs.org/archivesdb/detail.php?ID=200679

https://www.nwhs.org/archivesdb/detail.php?ID=197687

https://www.nwhs.org/archivesdb/detail.php?ID=96902

All three of these show with varying degrees of detail, the track arrangement at West Jefferson.

Best

Ken Miller

> On Sep 28, 2020, at 9:45 PM, NW Mailing List <nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org> wrote:
> 
> John, I am designing a model railroad based on the Abingdon Branch between
> West Jefferson and Damascus in the diesel era. Do you know what the track
> arrangement was in West Jefferson or where I can find a map?
> 
> The Radford Division track chart I got from the Society's archives does not
> show that detail, and none of the maps available from the Archives show it
> either.  The Museum of Ashe County History does not have such a map. The
> 1968 USGS topo map shows  a spur line crossing 2nd Street at 4th Avenue, but
> it does not continue into downtown West Jefferson.
> 
> I know there was a wye just north of the West Jefferson depot, but I assume
> there were also spur tracks to serve the Phoenix (Thomasville) Chair Company
> and other businesses in downtown West Jefferson.
> 
> Thanks for any help.
> 
> Paul Mandelkern
> Winter Park, Florida
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> I have talked to a friend that lived in the house where the blue car is
> parked. The house is out of the picture to the right. He says this is
> Whitetop and the depot was probably torn down when this picture was taken.
> Looks like maybe early 70s?
> John Baldwin. Lansing NC
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