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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>
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<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>
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<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>
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<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>
<div> Harry Bundy </div>
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