Wharncliffe

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Jim,

The foundation is right for the tower/office location that would have 
replaced a frame station. The adjacent WB main is on a long 5 degree 
curve that could have been superelevated to 5" during steam, so the new 
(and old) west leg extends west to the nearest tangent to avoid cutting 
in a main line turnout on the curve.

Grant Carpenter
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On 9/16/2014 11:22 AM, NW Mailing List wrote:
> Made it down to Wharncliffe this past weekend and brought back a few 
> questions.  Attached are a few pix and Google maps showing the Wye 
> area.  The West leg of the Wye is looong.  Was that so it could be 
> used for car storage?  Also, immediately West of where this leg hits 
> the main, there is the beginning of a middle track, again I'm guessing 
> this was/is for storage of loads coming off the Gilbert branch.  One 
> of my pictures is of a foundation inside the Wye.  Does anyone know 
> what building once sat on it?  Was/is the Gilbert branch dark?  I saw 
> a siding driving along the branch toward Gilbert that was signaled. 
>  Did the railroad have signaled inter-lockings in un-signaled 
> territories?  Anybody out there familiar with operations on the 
> Gilbert branch that might shed some light on how traffic was/is 
> handled in this area?  It looks like the C&O tracks have been 
> paved/grown over headed out of town to the North.  I couldn't tell if 
> the VGN route out of the joint NW/VGN yard headed to Pineville was 
> still connected or not, but did see traffic on it further East.  Saw a 
> signalled siding on this stretch as well, so my previous question is 
> reiterated.  Hope some of you coal fans can shed provide some help here.
> Thanks,  Jim Cochran
>
>
> Moderator:
> http://nwhs.org/mailinglist/2014/20140916.IMG_1529.JPG
> http://nwhs.org/mailinglist/2014/20140916.IMG_1538.JPG
> http://nwhs.org/mailinglist/2014/20140916.IMG_1542.JPG
> http://nwhs.org/mailinglist/2014/20140916.wharn.pdf

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