Spring colors frame some of the garden relics

Spring colors frame some of the garden relics

Friday, June 25, 2010

N&W Switch Point for Yard Crews




Until the 1970's, N&W had a very active yard on an island in the James River at Lynchburg and just beyond the west end of the island were connections with Southern and C&O railroads. This piece of rail, about 70 pounds per yard I estimate, was placed vertical along one of the through tracks so that an engineer would know his train of a certain amount of cars had cleared a point.

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