Twelve Pole Line Abaodnoment

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Wed Feb 26 08:47:32 EST 2020


I would not feel comfortable riding a bicycle on it. Lightly used ? Fair amount of traffic mainly local sometimes with logging trucks

Larry Evans

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> On Feb 26, 2020, at 6:31 AM, NW Mailing List <nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org> wrote:
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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.
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> WJPowers
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> 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.  
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>> Larry Evans
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>> Sent from my iPhone
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>>> On Feb 25, 2020, at 1:59 PM, NW Mailing List <nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org> wrote:
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>>> The Twelve Pole Line (Naugatuck to Kenova) has fascinated me since the early 1960s, when I talked to men who had worked over it.
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>>> 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.
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>>> 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.
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>>> ICC document attached,
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>>> -- abram burnett
>>> ..  i-Turnips.com  ..
>>> <N&W Twelve Pole Line Abandonment__ ICC Reports_vol 193_1934.pdf>
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