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The Kudzu Taketh Over! (Current Status of Saluda)
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Most of the time kudzu is just cut back before it gets too close and in some cases it is sprayed (not sure what kind, have to be stout though.) I've never taken the time to do so, but I can imagine you can almost see the stuff grow! Like AJ said, if you get the root, you solve the problem. There's so much of it now that it's almost impossible. Groundhogs seem to take care of it fairly well, perhaps Norfolk Southern and the state of North Carolina just needs to breed and release thousands of groundhogs to take care of it![(-D] <br /> <br />Practically all of the pictures I have of Saluda I got by being in the right place at the right time with my camera. On the link below, the pictures taken in October 2001 at Melrose were taken when I heard the horn blowing at the grades in Tryon from my house and drove up to Melrose before the train got there. The pictures from Saluda were taken in July of 2001. My grandmother and I had been to Pearson's Falls near Melrose and heard the rumble and horn as the train departed. We hopped in the car and raced the train up Pearson Falls Road (a curvy, 1 1/2 lane gravel road) which parallels most of the grade and were able to get these pictures in Saluda. I got a quick lunch in at Green River BBQ there at the bridge after the first segment of the train was being left farther up the line and photographed it as it came back down to get some gondolas of woodchips. Then the trains stopped running before I got my driver's license and a scanner[:(] If they start running again, there won't be a weekend I won't spend racing up Saluda though. <br /> <br />http://www.geocities.com/williamchague/Saluda.html
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