North Carolina Branch industries long gone, and present.

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In a message dated 1/4/06 10:33:06 AM Eastern Standard Time, 
nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org writes:
Sure enough,
N&W saved many a man-hour by not having to do door repair.
After all, limestone just didn't have the same attraction as say a
box car loaded with cigarettes. 
                                             Harry Bundy
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Cigarettes. That reminds me of a story that Grandad (VGN engineer W.R. Bloyd) 
used to tell about a problem the Virginian was having with merchandise cars 
being broken into in which Chesterfield cigarettes were stolen. Virginian 
employees were the suspected culprits. He said that the Virginian arranged with the 
company that produced Chesterfields to have a special batch run with the 
labels altered to spell "Chexterfield', which were then planted in a box car by 
Virginian special agents. According to Grandad, several Virginian yard brakemen 
were found with the incriminating "Chexterfield" cigarettes in their 
possession, and were fired.

Greg Harrod 
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