Paved mountain road with railroad crossing signs and wooded hills – Historic Reproduction
(Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
Description
Few images capture their era like this historic image of Paved mountain road with railroad crossing signs and wooded hills. Drawn from the Snapshots of the Past archive, it is an authentic piece of documented history.
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Paved mountain road with railroad crossing signs and wooded hills
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Skyline Drive, the scenic road that runs along the crest of the Blue Ridge in northern and central Virginia, is the focus here, with its paved surface curving through the mountains. The railroad crossing signs stand out as an unexpected detail, since the parkway was built for motorists and rarely meets active rail lines, so their presence suggests a road that once ran alongside or crossed working tracks in the surrounding valleys. The wooded hills in the background show the dense hardwood cover that gives the Blue Ridge its name. Skyline Drive was developed in the 1930s as part of the Civilian Conservation Corps era of public works and was later made part of Shenandoah National Park.
| Original scan | 3,411 × 2,400 px · prints to 11 × 8 in at 300 dpi |
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| Reference | 1a33813u |
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