Radford Viscose plant

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Wed Jan 24 14:16:19 EST 2007



>I recall being in Radford one day about 1965, with nothing to do. As I

>recall, I was working an away-from-home local, or maybe the

>Radford-Bluefield Short Run, and staying on the caboose (as most of us did

>back then.) In my idle hours, I walked to some place that had been pointed

>out to me as the former railroad tie processing plant, or perhaps proposed

>location for an unbuilt tie processing plant. There was a trackless open

>deck girder bridge across a creek or river and into the concrete abutments

>were cast a date in the late 1940s (1946 or 1949, if I recall correctly.)

>Being young and deficient on good judgment, I took a pistol shot at the

>numerals on the northeast abutment, and the bullet riocochetted back in

>what sounded like very close proximity to my head.

>

>Could this be the same place now identified as the proposed Viscose

>site...?

>--adb



That trackless bridge would have been the spur going up and around the hill
to the Viscose site.

Robb Fisher
RFDI




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