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An imagined search through the Blue Ridge foothills of central Virginia for any remnants of a forgotten soapstone operation... The Davis-Murdoch Stone Company's narrow gauge railroad runs through an ancient landscape, marked by quarries, old mills, and small company towns. The route is strung together from research, correspondence, and recollections from years of hiking to abandoned industrial sites in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains... Chronicles of an On30 quarry railroad. An imagined journey through the Blue Ridge foothills