In doing the track for the L&N, Corbin to Cincinnati line, I also included the branch, now a independent short line, from Paris to Maysville, KY, and not far from Maysville, we come to the tiny village of Flemingsburg Jct. Well, junction to what? I knew there had been an independent railroad that connected here, now long abandoned, but a older topo map showed it and so I decided to digitize it and include it as far as my tiles went, which is 2 miles or so short of Flemingsburg, KY. In 1870ish, some financiers decided to build a railroad out of Flemingsburg and they were ambitious. It would eventually have many names and be reorginized many times. In one of these it was to extend from Cincinnati through Flemingsburg south to Pound Gap. Now there is a Pound Gap and in the late 1940s, the C&O had a ill fated branch that went under it, and now a major highway goes through it but that is a very long way from Flemingsburg. Eventually the railroad, originally narrow gauge, extended from Flemingsburg Junction through Flemingsburg to Hillsboro, KY and that was it. Ill times came along after WW-II and all but the 6 miles from the junction to Flemingsburg were all that remained, and that was abandoned in 1956. There are many such lines that were built, flourished for a while, and then died, throughout our country.
When digitizing off of a topo map overlay, you don't come real close for the most part, but you do have enough that you can study the landscape and adjust the digitized path to more accurately reflect what once was-----.
Jerry
When digitizing off of a topo map overlay, you don't come real close for the most part, but you do have enough that you can study the landscape and adjust the digitized path to more accurately reflect what once was-----.
Jerry