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<DIV>I have heard from the Southern guys that the signals did read clear.</DIV>
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<DIV>Richard D. Shell</DIV>
<DIV>Troutville, VA</DIV>
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<DIV>In a message dated 8/19/2009 11:45:12 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
nw-mailing-list@nwhs.org writes:</DIV>
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<DIV><BR><BR><BR>Forty years ago, Hurricane Camille began saturating
Virginia. A Shenandoah</DIV>
<DIV>Div. crew near Midvale encountered water over the track and
stopped. The</DIV>
<DIV>South River was rising. When contacting the rear end crew to
back to</DIV>
<DIV>higher ground, they advised that water had also risen above the
tracks.</DIV>
<DIV>The crew was rescued by helicopter. </DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>At 2:30 AM (20th), the Maury River rose above the N&W tracks and
flooded</DIV>
<DIV>downtown Glasgow. Nearby Nelson County received 27" of rain in
about</DIV>
<DIV>3 hours. Nelson County received more rain, but Rockingham County
had</DIV>
<DIV>more flood damage. Southern Railway's No. 47 facing strong
rains stopped</DIV>
<DIV>south of Charlottesville. A good thing - the double tracked
Tye River bridge</DIV>
<DIV>had been washed away. Photos in local papers the 21st showed
four</DIV>
<DIV>strands of rail stretching across the Tye River valley without
support.</DIV>
<DIV>Wonder if Southern's signals displayed CLEAR.</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>Following the flood, N&W helicoptered Asst. Gen. Manager Bill Dod
and</DIV>
<DIV>N&W's bridge "magician" - Henry Dearing, to survey the
damage. The</DIV>
<DIV>helicopter flew 20 stranded victims to safety. </DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>In all, N&W's Shenandoah Division was flood-damaged in nine different
places,</DIV>
<DIV>including the double track bridge north of Pkin. By August 29,
N&W had</DIV>
<DIV>made sufficient repairs to begin service. Nos. 17-18-,41 and 42
were rerouted</DIV>
<DIV>up the Shenandoah Div. to Waynesboro, then to Charlottesville. </DIV>
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Harry Bundy </DIV>
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