Balloon track near Dwight

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To see the reason for the loop track at Dwight, VA go to the following on the Virginia Tech imagebase:

http://imagebase.lib.vt.edu/search.php?folio_filename=/home/www/imagebase.lib.vt.edu/web_root/xml/searches/imagebase-search-1186014347.xml&query_string=dwight&num_rows=22&start_row=6&query_string=dwight

Amongst photos of people named Dwight you will find photos of the N&W coaling station, telegraph office and signal system powerhouse at Dwight, VA.  The loop allowed cars of coal to be shoved up and over the main tracks and sidings below.  They would be spotted where they could be bottom dumped into bins from which coal could loaded via chutes into locomotive tenders below.  Empties would then be shoved around the loop back to ground level.

Gordon Hamilton

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  Sent: Wednesday, August 01, 2007 3:59 PM
  Subject: Balloon track near Dwight


  A side question for you out of curiosity:

  A 1920 map shows a balloon track near Dwight Va., ( just east of Zuni ) pointed south-east down the 'racetrack' appearing to be anchored onto a passing siding.
  Anyone have any information about it, how or why it was used?
  It appears to possibly be a flying crossing.



  Corrections welcome.

  Thanks,
  Dave Willis.




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