Friday, March 24, 2017

Lynchburg, VA: CSX/L&N Coaling Tower and Interlocking Tower

Coaling Tower: (3D Satellite
Interlocking Tower: (3D Satellite)

Ed Sharpe
1984 Lynchburg, Virginia
Old Chesapeake & Ohio Railway coaling tower that was used for steam locomotives.
Photograph by Ed Sharpe — at Lynchburg, Virginia .
 
Marty Bernard posted
C&O Coaling Tower, Lynchburg, VA on March 13, 1976. That's C&O GP9 6252 built August 1957.
  Bill Howes photo
Marty Bernard shared

Dennis DeBruler commented on Marty's post
It is still standing:
https://www.google.com/maps/@37.398007,-79.1217675,85a,35y,39.49t/data=!3m1!1e3

Tim Shanahan shared Matt Swart's post.
This was taken at the CSX Lynchburg, VA yard. The yard is still in service but the coaling tower isn't.
Thomas Dorman Chesapeake & Ohio Railway, built in 1948 by Ogle Engineering Company of Chicago. Ogle rated the capacity at 75 tons, but C&O called it a 100-ton tower. Similar to the tower Ogle built for the C&O in 1935 at Ronceverte, WV.

Ed Painter posted
I lived in Lynchburg,VA from 1979 to 1988......It had former N&W, Southern, and C&O lines and a lot of action....(it would have been great to railfan except my job had me out of town 80%+ of the time..............however there was great railroad action at most of the places I was working at out of town!).
B&O-Chessie 3804 GP38 Lynchburg,VA Oct 1980

Randall Hampton shared

Street View

Curtis Nicolaisen posted
Along the James River in Lynchburg Virginia.
Ted Gregory: Isn't that where the N&W island yard was located? behind it?

Curtis replied to Ted's question
Yes, Percival’s Island.

Dennis DeBruler commented on Curtis' reply
Percival's island was the information that allowed me to find it.
https://www.google.com/.../@37.4129421,-79.../data=!3m1!1e3


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