I am stuck home this weekend with my wife healing from a out patient procedure. Someone please tell us about an adventure you are having this weekend or at least something fun so we can live vicariously through you.
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I like to tour old places and abandoned ghost towns. Took this trip one day over the weekend to Thurmond, WV. An old coal town that dried up when the coal vain was exhausted. the proprietor of the mine and town was Christian and made it a dry town, so naturally the saloon/ whore house was cross the river from the town. A lot of drunks died crossing the tracks coming home from the Saloon.
PS: I hope you heal very nicely my friend.
You drive or walk across the New River to get to the town. The same bridge the railroad uses a side-by-side type deal and quite unique.
Old train station as you cross the river. Amtrack still uses it as a restroom sop for its passengers and a little history stop only.
Post office
Houses that still stand, and vacant and being upkept and redone by the three only residents of the area.
General store and banks for the coal money and miners' money not spent across the river at the saloon.
@Musicman That little Gravel Road I took pics of runs up the mountain to the only three remaining residents and other homes from the era, but you need a jeep or small 4x4 to go to the top. All seriously steep switch backs.
