The Valley Railroad's Right of Way into Salem

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 Has anyone created a Google Earth file overlaying the Right-of-Way of the
Valley Railroad on the modern satellite imagery,  from, say,  Botetourt
County, into Salem ?

My father told me about scouting the old unfinished grade of the Valley RR
in the 1930s, so the topic has always interested me.  It is perhaps a twist
of irony that he is buried in Cedar Lawn Cemetery on Cove Road, just 700
feet from the Valley RR's R/W.

Google Earth Pro, which is freeware, is the perfect tool for a
person interested in railroad history.  With just a few tutorials from
YouTube, a user can be drawing line locations on satellite imagery, taking
elevations, measuring distances, getting accurate coordinates, creating map
files and adding annotations, creating grade charts, and much, much more.
My youngest grandson could do anything he wanted in Google Earth by the
time he was 10 years of age.  I am presently working on a project of
mapping the entire VGN on the satellite imagery in Google Earth, and the
only thing holding up the project is that I cannot obtain the names of some
of the little branch lines in the coal fields.  Try Google Earth... you
will love it.

Now... has anyone done the Valley RR ???

-- abram burnett
1-800-TUR-NIPZ
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