Fairlawn - Schooler Question (NW Mailing List)

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Hey guys:  I took a pic of the building in Fairlawn ( Schooler) I suspect
is RR related in some way.  It has been moved to the location there in the
'Foodette' parking lot where it  currently is. It was the Post office at
one time in Fairlawn and then was a shoe repair shop back in the 70's.
Then it was a Tax preparer office in the 80' and 90's, then it was  shoe
repair again, then Tienda latina  foods up until 2017.   Unoccupied right
now.
It was grey before they put the vinyl siding on it.

 That is 114 in the foreground. about fifty feet to the right is the
intersection of Belspring road & 114.  I was sitting in traffic at the
light going west, and took the pic.
My Uncle said the building used to be up beside the rt 600 Belspring road
before they moved it and widened the intersection in the 60's  ( before my
time ) .
The brick house in the background is facing  Belspring road  about a 100
feet off the road.

The porch roof was added back a long time ago, and taken out by a drunk
driver maybe 20 years ago,  then added back.
It's a long building as you can see.  Interesting,  Who builds a long but
non-wide building ?  Specific purpose ?

 Could be available for storage for NWHS use * cheap* . I can stop and ask
Krishna ( he owns the complex there) how much?   Let me know.

I don't think this helps in determining where the station at  'Schooler'
was,  but interesting ( slightly)  none the less ?  : )
 Nothing like a distraction eh ?
Best regards
rob

R.ervine
Fairlawn, Parrott, Schooler  metroplex.



On Sun, May 9, 2021 at 11:15 PM NW Mailing List <nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org>
wrote:

> There was a track chart (#10595 at the bottom) shared for the original
> posters showing the point where the old line met the new one at Parrott.
> Haven't seen one for the area "N&W east" of there posted on here.
>
> If there was a trestle bypassing a dip and shorter radius curve in the
> present alignment of Rt. 600 there at Highland Road I have no knowledge of
> it.
>
> Great-grandfather was Dry Branch section foreman, and his son (N&W
> employee for a short time) told me that cut-bank traces in the hillsides
> compass-east of Rt. 600 between "Midway" (formerly Albert's) store and
> Belspring were "the old road". That was before the new track was laid, and
> Rt. 600 (old road) moved to the old rail bed. Those cuts began in the
> immediate vicinity of "the store" on the N&W east end of that section.
>
> I believe I did mention the "old-road" cuts in the previous discussion.
>
> Wish I could contribute more. Good luck on the Highland Road trestle
> quest. I'd like to see it, too.
>
> Respectfully;
> Vince Albert
>
>
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> Message: 1
> Date: Sat, 08 May 2021 19:27:51 -0400
> Subject: Re:  Fairlawn - Schooler Question
>
> It seems to me that we have had this discussion not so very long ago, with
> maps showing everything that you speak of.
>
> Jimmy Lisle Sent from my Verizon, Samsung Galaxy smartphone
>
> -------- Original message --------From: NW Mailing List <
> nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org> Date: 5/8/21  7:01 PM  (GMT-05:00) To: N&W
> Mailing List <nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org> Subject: Re:  Fairlawn - Schooler
> Question
>
>    Another thing it would be nice to determine is where the new alignment
> (to Cowan) and the old alignment (to Fairlawn) met at or near Belspring.
>
>      Studying the satellite imagery, it appears the the old and new
> alignments could have met about anywhere along a distance of approximately
> 3700 feet between present Belspring and present Parrott.?
>
>      Of course, the best way of referencing such things in our
> conversations is to give the GPS coordinates.? If you go to Google Maps,
> and use either the Map View to Satellite View, you can RIGHT-click anywhere
> on the image and the GPS coordinates will appear.? Then, if you LEFT-click
> on those numbers, they will be copied to your clipboard and can be pasted
> into an email.? Any teenager can show you how.? I have learned most of what
> (little) I know from teenagers...
>
>    And I heard that Burgermeister Ervine of Greater Metropolitan Fairlawn
> & Environs has deputized Mr. Vincenzo Albertini, of the Grand Dutchy of Dry
> Branch, and tasked him with finding out everything worth knowing about the
> Highland Road Trestle, concluding by quoting the last note sent by General
> Custer asking for re-enforcements, **Be Quick!**
>
>    -- abram burnett,
>
>
>
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