Vacation questions - tour of Bluefield lubritorium

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I am sure that a tour for one person is a lot easier to 
arrange than a tour for 50 people, but it sure is a slap in 
the face to those 50 or so people who paid for a tour during 
the N&WHS convention and were turned away at the last 
minute! The lame excuse we were given was that the facility 
was too busy to handle us.  That was a giant load of bovine 
excrement.  There was only one engine in the entire fueling 
facility, and it wasn't anywhere near the fuel racks or the 
lubritorium.  Simply put, they were not too busy for us, but 
we were certainly made to feel unwelcome.

The tour that we did get was definitely not worth the price 
of the bus fare.  The view from the tower was OK if you 
could find a window that wasn't fogged up, but the 
dispatching center tour was just plain lame. We weren't 
allowed in to see the dispatcher's boards and the chief 
dispatcher was either unable or unwilling to explain the 
schematic on his board.

Mark, please give Larry an extra special tour.  Perhaps then 
Larry can post some pictures for the rest of us who were 
left out in June.

Jerry Kay, Portsmouth, Va.

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>Date: Tue, 14 Aug 2007 18:29:58 -0400

>From: NW Mailing List <nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org>  

>Subject: Vacation questions  

>To: nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org

>

>   Larry,

>

>   I'm a Chief Dispatcher, Pocahontas Division, in

>   Bluefield. Contact me and I'll gladly get you a tour

>   of the lubritorium.

>

>   Mark Webb

>

>