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By Ray Cox
Special to The Roanoke Times
Experience tells us some questions endure and nag. One, you may have heard before: The train has long since pulled away but whatever became of the station from which it departed?
A variation of that query dealt with here recently has been the fate of the old Buchanan depot after Norfolk & Western train service ceased there.
A twisty track has led us to a forgotten plan to deconstruct and reassemble that old station as part of failed effort to develop a living history exhibit at the old Explore Park in Roanoke County. Now part of the county park system, Explore was first conceived as a grand private venture to be developed upon an early American history theme.
Good mysteries are popular with both newspaper readers and content providers. Unsolved mysteries are less satisfying but inevitable. You’ve seen them in this space before and foolish pride does not
Let’s return to bygone days when summer nights in and around the Roanoke Valley were filled with the sound of hits. Baseball had nothing to do with it.
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