Wonderful photograph, Tom ... love the post merger "original" NS photograph on the current day NS mainline. Thanks for posting this one.
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| Posted by on June 13, 2012 | |
So much to look at here..the GP18's on the main, the long gone L&N box and Elm signals, the D&M box, the under-construction apartments. The bridge the engines are crossing has recently been refurbished and now hosts a walkway that leads north along the old Atlantic & Yadkin RR right of way.
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| Posted by on June 19, 2012 | |
I don't believe that's the old Atlantic & Yadkin undergrade bridge. I'm not sure, but I believe that it used to be Edgeworth St., which was replaced many years ago by the Freeman Mill Rd overhead bridge, whose new alignment is being used by the photographer for this shot. The A&Y line can still be seen on various mapping programs to the east of where this photo was taken. The line remains in service to the north, a few miles north of downtown, and south from Elm Interlocking toward Sanford, NC, near where it connects with the new NS (ex-old NS) Raleigh-Charlotte line at Cumnock. I believe that the ex-NS line is now the Aberdeen, Carolina & Western (AC&W), at least for part of its route. It used to extend all the way northwest to Rural Hall and Mt. Airy and, generations ago, from Sanford down to Fayetteville and Wilmington, hence the name Atlantic & Yadkin (for those not from the area, the Yadkin River flows from the mountains above North Wilkesboro, NC, down past Elkin, then west of Winston-Salem, beneath the Southern north of Salisbury, and becomes the Pee Dee River near the South Carolina border) and meets the Waccamaw and Sampit Rivers at Georgetown, SC, to form the Atlantic Ocean.
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