C&O Trackage Rights over the N&W between Glen Jean (Waverly), and Valley Crossing (Columbus), Ohio

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IIRC, many, many years ago, Gary Rolilh authored an article about this
which was  published in the Society's magazine.  I can't remember which
issue, but remember the detailed article.

Jim Brewer

On Wed, Feb 10, 2021 at 7:41 AM NW Mailing List <nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org>
wrote:

> One of the longest stretches of parallel track is the ATSF / D&RGW Joint
> line between Denver and Pueblo CO.  Initially mandated in 1918 by the USRA,
> it still is in use by the UP and BNSF as joint trackage more than 100 years
> later.
>
> Sent from my digital telegraph key
> Jim Stapleton
>
> On Feb 9, 2021, at 19:17, NW Mailing List <nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org>
> wrote:
>
> 
> The Erie and Big Four/NYC had paired tracks for a few miles in Marion,
> OH., running it as shared track
>
> *Sent from my LG K10, an AT&T 4G LTE smartphone*
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> *Subject:*Re: C&O Trackage Rights over the N&W between Glen Jean
> (Waverly), and Valley Crossing (Columbus), Ohio
>
>
>
>
>
> were the C&O trackage rights a unique arrangement for the N&W? Or did it
> occur elsewhere  ?
>
> Today's CSX has trackage rights over the former N&W's Clinch Valley
> District from Norton to
> St. Paul.  There was also an arrangement with ATSF ID'ed as "paired track"
> on the Moberly
> Division (former Wabash) for 30 miles between Carrollton and Camden,
> Missouri.  N&W owned
> and maintained one track and ATSF  the other main track, but trains from
> both roads could
> use either track.  The 30-miles was Automatic Block Signal (not TC) and
> was ATSF- dispatched.
> So it might be said that from the Wabash acquisition until Amtrak, the
> ATSF *Super Chief/El Capitan*
> operated on the N&W (for 30 miles that
> is)                                          Harry Bundy
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