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| Street View, Apr 2012 |
Jim Slater posted three photos with the comment: "Gordonsville, VA (CSX/ NS) 03-01-2023"
Kenneth E. Carden: Is there any freight traffic coming off the NS main via Gordonville or is only the tri-weekly Amtrak from Wash to Chicago.
Jim Slater: Kenneth E. Carden the short time I was there I didn’t see anything. But I believe today a short line runs between there and Doswell.
Jim Kelling: This was a C&O tower at the junction with the Southern Railway.
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| 1 Jim Slater: To NS on the left, CSX on the right |
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| 2 Jim Slater: CSX on the Right, Connection track on left to the NS in Orange, VA. [I checked several topo maps and they all label the route between Gordonsville and Orange, VA, as C&O. And a USGS map labels it as CSX. Since that branch terminates with a connection to NS in Orange, maybe CSX sold that "spur" to NS.] |
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| 3 Jim Slater: Old Hotel located across the tracks from the tower Gordonsville, VA |
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| Stanley Short posted Westbound Chesapeake & Ohio manifest No, 795 is about to go from the Piedmont SD to the Washington SD as it passes G Cabin in Gordonsville, VA on Sept. 22, 1984 with three B30-7s. |
I was looking to see if the grain elevator in the background of Stanley's photo was still standing and discovered that a water tower might still be standing. The train is going from the southern leg to the western leg in this image.
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| Satellite |
But the southern leg turns and becomes a southeastern leg whereas the western leg turns and becomes a southwestern leg.
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| 1970 Gordonsville Quad @ 24,000 |
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| 1949 Charlottesville Quad @ 250,000 |
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