Okay, this is the default detector at Wakenva VA, about halfway way between Trammel and Nora on the original Clinchfield line (now CSX).
My question is: Every reference source I’ve gone to says that “Wakenva” is a portmanteau word (mashup, i.e.) comprising West Virginia, Kentucky and Virginia. People, look at the word!
It would have to be “WEkenva” for that to work. Hmm.
The information about the important Clinchfield Railroad Nora spur is here.
Here’s what part of it looked like a couple of years ago. This is near Nora and looking south.
I found two dates on the rails in this section: 1926 (Carnegie Steel) and 1949 (Tennessee).
Well, here we are at Buffalo tunnel, 26 miles south of Elkhorn City. The tunnel bores 352′ through a ridge where the railroad, which has been heading in generally easterly direction for a few miles, kinks sharply (for a railroad) to the south. We’re by the McClure river, a bit north of Nora, in Dickenson County. Decimal coordinates: 37.080040, -82.351309.
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