Where ie this pic taken

Wed Sep 30 16:31:53 EDT 2020

Nothing listed under Ashe County (NC) or West Jefferson for any date.  Abingdon has 4 maps circa late 1800s.  Apparently, West Jefferson and surrounding area wasn’t populated enough to justify Sanborn’s map generation “team”.  It’s possible Ashe County courthouse has property deeds showing RR ROW but that would be a significant search project.  Topo maps obliterate the area around the station with post-track-removal images.  Google Earth shows old ROW but the structures have changed so much since 1977 track removal that those images are practically worthless.

IMO, the ICC would be a good place to check out.  Their 1917 valuation maps are key to ROW research for Southern.  I know the V-C ROW maps are in the N&WHS Archives but they weren’t updated post-buyout by N&W.

Jim King

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Here is the link to the on-line Sanborn Maps at the Library of Congress:

https://www.loc.gov/collections/sanborn-maps/

Scroll down and on the left side, under Location, select "More Locations." Once at that page, on the upper left you can select to sort alphabetically.  Note that listings are by states and counties.  Have fun.

Jim Brewer

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Thanks Ken.  I have already purchased the second and third items on your
list  from the Archives.  However, the right of way map (item 2) was last
updated in 1943, and I am interested in the track as it existed from the
50's to abandonment in 1977.  The two drawings (items 1 and 3) are also from
earlier dates and do not show the track in downtown West Jefferson  several
blocks to the east of the depot.

Paul Mandelkern
Winter Park, Florida 

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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

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> 
> 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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