Where is it?

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BRAKIE

Member since
October 2001
From: OH
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Posted by BRAKIE on Monday, November 5, 2001 12:09 PM

Carl: Thank you!!I will pass this information on to my buddy.This is the area that he is going to model.the era he is modeling is 1950.This is his frist layout and he wants to do it right.He has collected C&O steam engines over the years including 2 0-10-0s,like the C&O used at peach creek yard,and wants to model the yard.Thank you again.

Larry

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Summerset Ry.

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CShaveRR

Member since
June 2001
From: Lombard (west of Chicago), Illinois
13,681 posts

Posted by CShaveRR on Monday, November 5, 2001 9:44 AM

Peach Creek Yard was (is?) C&O's major facility just outside Logan, West Virginia. Logan's on a branch that joins the C&O main line at Barboursville (just east of Huntington). I doubt that too much coal comes from up that line any more.

Carl

Railroader Emeritus (practiced railroading for 46 years--and in 2010 I finally got it right!)

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