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landnrailroader (14 posts)
Aug-26-01, 04:53 PM (EST) "Thanks & food for thought--------" To all of you who have graciously answered my sometimes stupid questions, I want to express thanks. I am sure I will have more, but the fog has begun to lift.---------Now food for thought. As I was downloading segments of USGS maps of the Elkhorn City/Fremont/Pound, Va. area, in order to work on the north end of the CSX Kingsport Sub. i.e. former Clinchfield, I noticed that the abandoned grade of the ill-fated Mead Fork Branch of the C&O is clearly marked on the map as it leaves Jenkins,Ky, threads the nearly 1 miles long Pine Mtn. Tunnel, etc. Even though marker data may not be available for a route abandoned for so long (1948), it is easy to pick points on a printout of the USGS map, and then determine the lat./long of the point from the Topozone site. A suitable marker file can be created by a text editor - by the way, the type 0 marker is almosst useless, too big, but it would be nice if there were three or four marker items of different colors so that various things could be tagged. Meanwhile, I mark tunnel portals, bridges etc. with text. Give that this abandoned line is still marked on the maps, there exists the possibility that not so fictious routes could be build of long abandoned lines. I am thinking here of the CMSt.P&P over St.Paul Pass, and through Montana, and the old NP Lookout Branch as examples.Just a thought. Now everyone keep having fun, and have a safe week.J. H. Sullivan, P.E. (retired from CSX) Alert Edit | Reply | Reply With Quote | Top

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