429 in West Jefferson

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Paul

The overlay portion was:

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

From 1927

The other two tracks were located from:

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

Both tracks were shown on this, the valuation or val map. The print we have, is from a large group of Radford Division maps I rescued back in the late 1980s.

The tracks were not both on the val map at the same time. In the notes, track A, the yellow track, was retired in 1925, it was for F. H. McNeil Lumber Company.

Track C, the white line, is listed with some info on a siding agreement, which we likely have in the archives, but will take a fair amount of effort to find, as those are large bound volumes taking about two shelves, roughly 2o feet long, they would likely lead to another more detailed drawing, but those books are really messy, with multiple pages glued in, and things are not necessarily filed in a chronological order.

Best
Ken Miller


> On Nov 8, 2020, at 12:55 PM, NW Mailing List <nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org> wrote:
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> Ken-
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> Where there two spur lines into West Jefferson from the main line (the yellow line and the white line )?  It looks like from the USGS top map there was only one spur line into WJ.
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> What is the document number of the drawing from the Archives that you used for the overlay ?
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> Paul Mandelkern
> Winter Park, FL
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> From: NW-Mailing-List <nw-mailing-list-bounces at nwhs.org> On Behalf Of NW Mailing List
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> Based on the slight differences of Google Maps, I overlaid part of an archives drawing over a today image of West Jefferson.
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> The yellow and white lines are based on parts of the drawing that I eliminated for clarity.
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> This is not unlike aerial photo analysis during World War II.
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> Ken Miller
> <image001.jpg>
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> On Nov 8, 2020, at 7:29 AM, NW Mailing List <nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org> wrote:
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> If you go to Google Earth you can still see the house behind the loco in the wye. Good point of reference. Anyone know if this was originally a railroad stucture? Looks like maybe residence now. 
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>  Chris Wrenn 
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> As I understand the track layout in WJ, the locomotive appears to be backing into the wye to turn and then return north on the branch. you are correct the regarding the location of the station in relation to the photographer and the trackside railcar shed and the section house near the trackside tank.
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>  R.D. Williams
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> Someone was recently asking about track layout in WJ.  I found this image on ebay earlier this year showing a motorcar shed, the tank and background buildings that might help.  Notice baggage/RPO car at far right.  I think the station is behind the photographer over his left shoulder.
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> Jim King
> http://smokymountainmodelworks.com/
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