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  • Former RR tracks (was: Re: it's hard surviving..)

    From JOE MACKEY@1:123/140 to DARYL STOUT on Fri Oct 30 07:02:22 2020
    Daryl wrote --

    depots, and a small section of track...but the rest has been converted to trails, or is gone altogether. The depots have been repurposed for places like the local Chamber of Commerce (Lonoke) to an insurance business (Hazen).

    The old B&O station a few blocks from here is a visitors centre and other things. The old storage sheds are various business.
    We also have "ghost" tracks here and there that were part of the B&O.
    These are usually now trackless green spaces.
    On my trip last year I saw parts of the Erie Canal that have survived.
    There was one working lock that was preserved as it would have been. But not well marked and I drove past and turned around.
    Outside Fredericksburg, VA part of the C&O canal is still there. The
    horse path is a walking trail now but one can see where it was. Its a dry depression in the land now and not been used for many a year.
    To get to it takes a bit of time going down this narrow road.
    Joe
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  • From Daryl Stout@1:19/33 to JOE MACKEY on Sat Oct 31 11:07:00 2020
    Joe,

    The old B&O station a few blocks from here is a visitors centre and other things. The old storage sheds are various business.

    One station (the location escapes me now), is a former Railway Express Agency

    office.

    We also have "ghost" tracks here and there that were part of the B&O.
    These are usually now trackless green spaces.

    When you see the "NOW" and "THEN"...or "BEFORE" and "AFTER" photos, it's
    hard to believe that trains were there at one time.

    On my trip last year I saw parts of the Erie Canal that have
    survived. There was one working lock that was preserved as it would
    have been. But not well marked and I drove past and turned around.

    I've heard of several folks fishing at the base of a dam...in one area, I think they were fishing for mullet (sp?).

    Outside Fredericksburg, VA part of the C&O canal is still there. The horse path is a walking trail now but one can see where it was. Its a
    dry depression in the land now and not been used for many a year.
    To get to it takes a bit of time going down this narrow road.

    I'd never make it down there now.

    Daryl

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