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In Virginia, Appalachian coal has rolled east on the former Chesapeake and Ohio Railway following the descending path of the James River to ocean shipment at Newport News for more than 130 years. The James River and Kanawha Canal was built from Richmond as far west as the town of Buchanan by 1851 along the James with the ultimate goal to provide a commercial waterway over the mountains to the Ohio River and Midwest. This eighteenth century business venture supported by George Washing and other Virginian landowners became reality too late. The final lock of the canal near the village of Eagle Mountain was never completed. After the Civil War and a flood in 1877, railroads had rendered the bankrupt canal obsolete. A railroad built on the towpath of the canal became a low-grade alternative to the original Chesapeake and Ohio Railway mainline which crossed three mountain summits to reach the head of the James from Richmond. Eagle Mountain grew as a rural town and was later renamed Eagle Rock. Businesses on Railroad Avenue parallel to the C&O in Eagle Rock including a bank, general merchandise store, butcher shop, wheelwright, and barber shop grew to serve the local area. After years of urbanization and a catastrophic flood in 1985, little remained in Eagle Rock. The population in 2020 was 209.

Gravity does nearly all the work. After releasing brakes in Clifton Forge, the engineer of an eastbound coal load on the James River Subdivision spends most of his time regulating dynamic brake effort to control speed. As evening twilight fades to darkness, the whir of dynamic brake fans overcomes the quite on Railroad Avenue at Eagle Rock. CSX train C208-04 from the Massey Energy Marfolk Mine in Raleigh County, West Virginia leads 146 loads of coal bound for ocean export at the Dominion Terminal at Newport News, Virginia. Bank of Botetourt still maintains a branch office in the ornate bank building facing Railroad Avenue. After business hours, the lone car on Railroad Avenue belongs to an occupant of a second story apartment.

I got very excited when I learned this was built in 1988, because I think it is wonderful fun to learn what year a building was built.

Among your memories, are there buildings that resemble this one that have been familiar to you?, buildings to and from which you have routinely come and gone?

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In downtown Norwalk, Ohio, on June 16th, 2024, was Norwalk Municipal Court at the southwest corner of Railroad Street and North Linwood Avenue.

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Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names terms:
• Huron (county) (1002497)
• Norwalk (2081160)

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Wikidata items:
• 16 June 2024 (Q69307201)
• 1980s in architecture (Q11185955)
• 1988 in architecture (Q2812996)
• city court (Q28134890)
• Connecticut Western Reserve (Q1126227)
• Firelands (Q5451878)
• June 16 (Q2653)
• June 2024 (Q61312789)
• Treaty of Fort Industry (Q7837057)

Library of Congress Subject Headings:
• Concrete masonry (sh85030722)
• Courthouses—Ohio (sh85033550)

Railroad Street, first-third of 20thC(?) - in spite of housing shortage, this house and maybe a dozen more were demolished by 2020 for construction of Go Transit commuter parking lot
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bay-and-gable

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Railroad Street, first-third of 20thC(?) - in spite of housing shortage, this house and maybe a dozen more were demolished by 2020 for construction of Go Transit commuter parking lot
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bay-and-gable

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But it was warm and welcoming inside.

Walking from the parking area to the entrance, I crossed the street to get a better view. The Rohrbach sign and entrance are near the center of the photograph.

Argus C3 Brick with the 35mm lens
Kentmere Pan 400 exposed at 800, developed in D76 1:1 17 min
Epson Perfection V500 Photo scanner

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CSX (Pan Am) NMWA westbound out of Northern Maine Junction, May 2023

High-performance variant, first generation
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boss_302_Mustang
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Background: former 'industrial functional' style Hewetson Shoe factory, built c1920, refurbished into light manufacturing, office and commercial units
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Pampas grass municipal beautification feature conceals Canadian National Railway (CN) Halton Subdivision twinned tracks just east of diamond crossing with Orangeville-Brampton Railway (OBRY) at milepoint 15.6
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CN_Halton_Subdivision
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cortaderia_selloana
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Olympus M.Zuiko Digital 12-50mm 1:3.5-6.3 macro

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Chattanooga Steel Roofing Co.

Adairsville Georgia

Maine Central GP40 351 (built as EMD 18 and later sold to Penn Central) leads Pan Am train NMWA south out of Hermon, Maine, towards Waterville. This unit is normally assigned as a switcher on job WA-1, but was pressed into road service when MEC 509 was needed to power a CSX geometry train.

Willcox, Arizona

Willcox, Arizona

We have been experiencing a very nice summer in Duluth and this afternoon was no exception as a BNSF switch job worked local industry. I could go for a beer like the one pictured on the billboard.

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