Classic Calendar - slight adjustment.....

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Thankee, Charlie!

EdKing
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> Uncle Ed wrote:

>

> "...The C&O came into Alexandria over the Southern from

> Charlottesville."

>

> Actually, a little further north at Orange, VA.....

> You're welcome....

> Charlie Long

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

>>Sent: Dec 8, 2007 8:45 AM

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

>>Subject: Re: Classic Calendar faux pas?

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>>Don't know about the engine, Mark (except that it wouldn't have been an

>>N&W one) but the Atlantic Coast Line didn't go to Alexandria. That

>>crossing was the Richmond, Fredericksburg and Potomac going over the

>>Southern main line. The ACL didn't get any closer to Alexandria than

>>Richmond. The C&O came into Alexandria over the Southern from

>>Charlottesville. The ACL and SAL trains came in over the RF&P.

>>

>>Ed King

>> ----- Original Message -----

>> From: NW Mailing List

>> To: NW Mailing List

>> Sent: Saturday, December 08, 2007 5:52 AM

>> Subject: Re: Classic Calendar faux pas?

>>

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>> OK History Buffs! When I was very young, We lived in Alexandria, just

>> 1/5 mile from the crossing of Southern tracks and Atlantic Coast Line

>> tracks(CSX,ATL, Seaboard??). I believe it was spring of 58, but possibly

>> '59. Mid morining. Mom was cleaning the 2nd floor windows and called me

>> to see a STEAM ENGINE coming north into Alexandria. I missed actually

>> seeing the engine, but saw the smoke rising from the trees. As a Steam

>> engine was by that time an unusual event, I was wondering If anybody had

>> any idea what engine it was? It almost HAD to be a Norfolk and Western K

>> or J, and pulling one of the Southern trains.

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>> Mark Lindsey

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>> On Dec 7, 2007, at 9:05 AM, NW Mailing List wrote:

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>> I might not have paid any attention to this if I hadn't have read it

>> in a review of the N&WHS Calendar's in "Model Railroad News". The review

>> noted and gave an example that "the calendar featured historic dates in

>> the railroads history alongside national holidays."

>> The example given was for Feb.20, "1957: Class K2a 129 pulls the

>> last steam powered train 2 from Hagerstown to Roanoke." I raised an

>> eyebrow! Could MRN be right about this? Surely MRN made a typo.

>> Now, with my interest piqued and being the good "Valley" boy that I

>> am, I turned my "Classic Calendar" to February 2008. Scrolling down

>> twenty days to when George was born, I find that gadzooks! It does say

>> that "...the last steam powered train 2 from Hagerstown to Roanoke"!

>> Oh well! What can I say? Only that the Classic Calendar is...

>> #1

>> with me!

>> Jimmy Lisle

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