Southern Railway Monroe Yard (former)

USA / Virginia / Madison Heights /

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A busy railroad yard till the 1982 merger of Southern and Norfolk & Western Railways. Shop repair facilities, crew changes, flat switching and local freight service all went on here. Closed by the late 1980s. You wouldn't know anything went on here now, 20 years later.

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Coordinates: 37°29'57"N 79°7'53"W

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