#JAMESTOWN UNDERPASS DRIVERS#
#JAMESTOWN UNDERPASS DRIVER#

Senator Charles Schumer announced grant monies to help restore the station as a commercial and transit hub on August 23, 2010. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2003 as the Erie Railroad Station. In 1992, the Jamestown Urban Renewal Agency took ownership of the station with $120,000 in funding from the federal Community Development Block Grant program. The station passed to private ownership and was slowly stripped of salvageable materials. Local railroad offices continued to occupy the building. On ApErie Lackawanna became part of the Conrail system, which was taken over in turn by CSX Transportation and the Norfolk Southern Railway on June 1, 1999. The last trains to use the station were the Atlantic Express/ Pacific Express (discontinued, 1965) and the Lake Cities (discontinued, January 1970). It passed on to successor Erie Lackawanna in 1960 and continued to serve as a station for the railroad's long distance trains operating between Hoboken and Chicago. Lydia’s Bridge is the old underpass there on the right, just through some trees.The station was constructed in 1931–32 for the Erie Railroad as a replacement for a much older station. There’s a turn-out spot on your right where you can park.

Take a left on to High Point Road, the road curves around and goes under a railway underpass near the “Welcome to Jamestown” sign. Take that left, go another mile, and you’ll come to High Point Road.

Go about half a mile to the traffic light where Vickery Chapel Road veers off to the left. Lydia’s Bridge is an on US-70 A or High Point Road, just south of Jamestown.įrom I-85 South/Highway 70, take exit 118, which is also business 70.įrom this road, takefirst exit you come for Jamestown / Sedgefield, and turn right at the top of the exit on to Vickery Chapel Road. I suppose she’s still trying to get home.” I suppose she still doesn’t understand what happened to her. Every so often, her spirit flags down a passing driver. You’re not the first one, and I suppose you won’t be the last. “Lydia was my daughter,” the old woman says, “She died in a car wreck by that overpass in 1923. It’s a photograph of the young woman the man drove to the house. He wonders if she may have run out before he could open the door, and he just wants to know if she’s safe and if everything is as it should be.Ī faint, pained smile of recognition passes over the old woman’s face, as she reaches for a picture in a silver frame sitting on a table by the door. The man explains that he’s picked up a young lady named Lydia by the overpass who asked to be brought to this address, but she’s no longer in the car. Perplexed, the man goes to the door and rings the bell.

#JAMESTOWN UNDERPASS DRIVER#

When the car pulls in to the address that the young woman gave, the chivalrous driver invariably hops out to open the door for her - only to discover that she has vanished. The driver may try to engage Lydia in conversation, but she seems distracted and in a world of her own, so he just leaves her in a respectful silence and concentrates on the road ahead. She gives the driver an address not too far away, and he kindly agrees to take her there. She will tell the driver that she’s just been to a dance and now she’s trying to get home. If anyone pulls over to help the young lady, she climbs meekly into the back seat of the car and says that her name is Lydia.

She will be desperately trying to flag down any passing car.

#JAMESTOWN UNDERPASS DRIVERS#

On certain rainy nights in Jamestown, NC, where US 70-A twists around a sweeping curve that passes by an old, overgrown underpass, drivers will see a young woman in a white evening dress standing by the side of the road.

Jamestown underpass