Retired Railroaders are one of the best resources to understand any line and how it operated. There are several retired Southern men in the local area. They share their knowledge willingly and worked on the B line during their careers. They maintain that in their time there was plenty of traffic on the line. This encompassed periodic times from 60's to the early 21st Century. Traffic in the modern time ended short of Harrisonburg with interchange. Prior to the merger there was interchange with the C&W, N&W, B&O and the Southern (Manassas). To include these locations except Manassas as stub end tracks would generate traffic in modern times while they become freight points in earlier times. The various grain storage customers and co-ops generated much of the modern traffic as they would have in an earlier era.
More to come.
