These steps led up to the old CHW yard office

Name	Type	Comments	Date

Fred Stuckmann	General	Hitchcock anyone?	8/7/2010 8:57:05 PM

Stephen Brock	General	Nosferatu!!! Thank you, Fred!	8/8/2010 12:30:22 PM

Zachary DeVore	General	wow, it looks nasty in there - but its been several years since the fire and unfortunately, its not well sealed anymore, so maybe we should be amazed at how good of shape the old station/office still is. Of course, prior to the N&W buying the CHW, the office was also the railroad headquarters (although as I remember from the book Crooked and Weedy, the ownership was actually out of New York - I guess that only a New Yorker would think that they could turn Reedsville into a major port on Chesapeake Bay when Baltimore and Norfolk/Newport News already existed)	9/5/2010 10:03:55 AM

Zachary DeVore	General	Also, I think that from Harrisonburg to the coal fields in West Virginia would have been a much worse path than the existing ones through Roanoke/Bluefield and through Cumberland. I think that the entire plan of the CHW never made a lot of sense which is why it never made it. So, the comment that only a New Yorker would think it was a good idea is more "only someone not from the area who didn't know the geography"	9/5/2010 10:06:09 AM

Zachary DeVore	General	BTW, Stephen, have you ever read John Wayland's history of Harrisonburg/Rockingham County? Very interesting chapter on railroads including several plans which never got off the ground in there	9/5/2010 10:07:33 AM

Stephen Brock	General	Thanks for all the great input, Zack!!!	9/5/2010 5:46:24 PM

These steps led up to the old CHW yard office
Date: 8/6/2010	Location: Harrisonburg, VA Map	Views: 246	Collection Of: Stephen Brock
			Author: Stephen Brock

Picture Categories:		This picture is part of album: A Walk-About With the Old Chesapeake & Western Railway Station.

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