Photo Archive Resource and a Mystery

NW Mailing List nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org
Fri Aug 29 01:06:42 EDT 2008



Bruce,


All I can say is Wow!

Spec is just a mile or two north of Lithia, VA. The building in the
foreground was the canning factory and the building still stands!. There used to be
about five little company houses at Spec. The old Fringer store building still
exist just a few hundred yards north of this site as well. The building on
the right is very visible from Rt. 640 on the east side. They have recently
logged in the area so there may be more to see when the vegetation dies down
this fall.

About 20 years ago there was a major derailment of a bunch of cement hoppers
and a caboose that made a mad dash down the mountain without brakes. It made
one huge pile of limestone and scrap metal within sight of this photo.

Thanks,

Richard D. Shell
Troutville, VA







**************It's only a deal if it's where you want to go. Find your travel
deal here.
(http://information.travel.aol.com/deals?ncid=aoltrv00050000000047)
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://six.pairlist.net/pipermail/nw-mailing-list/attachments/20080829/07823a6c/attachment.htm>


More information about the NW-Mailing-List mailing list