Roanoke VA Railfan Guide

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ROANOKE VA
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Map 2 of 5 for the Roanoke Area

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This map of Roanoke covers the downtown area, which includes the Park Street Tower, the O. Winston Link Museum, the Virginia Museum of Transportation, and railroad walk along Norfolk Ave and the old N&W mainline, and the ex N&W shops.

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Map

Sights

1 Park Street Tower

2 Virginia Museum of Transportation

A few pictures from the backside of the museum, including 1218, a Pennsy GG1, and a PCC car.

3 Railwalk

Railwalk is perhaps the nicest tribute to railroads I have seen anyone do, and it involved the city, Norfolk Southern, and the NRHS among others. There are several interactive displays, including a crossing gate, a locomotive horn, and the signals. They kindly placed a "bump-out" with a hole in the fence so that we railfans can photograph eastbound freights without obstruction!

4 1st St Bridge

There are more pictures of the bridge with the signals mounted on it on the N&W CPL page.

5 O Winston Link Museum

This museum houses the fantastic collection of one of the more famous railroad photographers of the 50's and 60's. A shop in New Mexico has one of his original prints for $15K, printed by Mr. Link himself.

6 The Shops

Signals

The downtown area of Roanoke is littered with N&W CPL signals everywhere you look, although Norfolk Southern has been slowly replacing them on an as needed basis. The signals on the cantilever bridge next to 1st street used to be mounted on the overpass, and a CPL at location 2 was replaced sometime since 1993. For more pictures of N&W CPL pictures, additional pictures of the locations on this map, and the stuff from 1993, check out: https://railroadsignals.us/signals/nwcpl/index.htm

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