Twelve Pole Line Abaodnoment

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Is it a lightly used rural road? I ask as bicycle rider that likes to 
make trips over former railroad rights-of-way.

WJPowers



On 2/25/2020 4:09 PM, NW Mailing List wrote:
> Well when your ready come to the house I give you a guided tour it a 
> good trip drive 80% of the right of way two of the three tunnels  two 
> stations lot of the bridges . Bridges are disappearing fast.
>
> Larry Evans
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
>> On Feb 25, 2020, at 1:59 PM, NW Mailing List 
>> <nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org> wrote:
>>
>> 
>> The Twelve Pole Line (Naugatuck to Kenova) has fascinated me since 
>> the early 1960s, when I talked to men who had worked over it.
>>
>> Today, quite by chance, I ran across the ICC abandonment 
>> authorization document.  It is Finance Document 9207, issued in 1934, 
>> and covering two hearings held in 1933.  The line was abandoned late 
>> in 1933.  The document was published in ICC Reports, vol. 193, 1934.
>>
>> I believe the original Twelve Pole Line R/W now supports a vehicle 
>> road, and can be driven, and that at least one of the tunnels is used 
>> for the vehicular road.  If anyone has made this trip my motor 
>> vehicle, I would like to hear about it, as I am considering doing the 
>> same.
>>
>> ICC document attached,
>>
>> -- abram burnett
>> ..  i-Turnips.com  ..
>> <N&W Twelve Pole Line Abandonment__ ICC Reports_vol 193_1934.pdf>
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