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- This picturesque little viaduct is just about a half
mile from Rowlesburg on Salt Lick Road toward Terra Alta on the
West End Run of the B&O Railroad.
- "Cranberry Grade is located between M&K
Junction and Terra Alta, West Virginia, with a maximum ruling
grade of 2.84 % against eastbound trains as the Mountain Subdivision
climbs Backbone Mountain. At the east end of the M&K yard
is the McMillian interlocking where the yard tracks reconnect
with the main two tracks through a system of crossovers. The
grade begins to steepen a mile east of McMillian as the railroad
begins to climb out of the bottom of the Salt Lick Creek valley
towards Amblersburg. At Amblersburg the Mountain Subdivision
crosses Salt Lick Creek on a single arch stone viaduct where
it turns northeast leaving the Salt Lick Valley to follow Spruce
Run to Rodemer. Between Amblersburg and Rodemer the line is almost
constantly twisting through curves as the Mountain rapidly gains
altitude towards the summit at Terra Alta." from http://www.wvrail.railfan.net/cranberry.html
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