NW-Mailing-List Digest, Vol 40, Issue 41

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My copy of the Arrow arrived in Atlanta today.

Bill Smith 

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Today's Topics:

   1. Re: NW-Mailing-List Digest, Vol 40, Issue 40 - Roanoke Shop
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   2. Convention 2009 (NW Mailing List)
   3. Re: Convention 2009 (NW Mailing List)
   4. Virginian in 1909--Open (NW Mailing List)


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According to my records, the S-1a's were built at the rate of two per month.

Louis Newton


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>   1. Regarding the TerraServer Images (NW Mailing List)

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>   3. N&W in 1909--Graham depot (NW Mailing List)

>   4. N&W in 1909--Bluefield items (NW Mailing List)

>   5. Re: N&W in 1909--Bluefield items (NW Mailing List)

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> Date: Sun, 22 Feb 2009 14:10:19 -0500

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> Gordon:

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> I have noticed that all of the various services I use (terraserver, google



> earth and maps, and live maps) all seem to have different photos at 

> various levels. It most probably comes from the satellite imagery 

> available for any point at a given altitude. Sometimes the difference from



> one level to the next is really interesting.

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> I was looking at Shaffers Crossing this week with Live Maps and it is 

> interesting to use the zoom in feature that they call their "Birds Eye 

> View" and scroll in various directions.  At Shaffers Crossing trains will 

> appear and disappear, the area that looks to be a recycling yard is full 

> of trash in one view and empty when you refresh.

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> Makes getting a consistent view fun doesn't it!?

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> Hope this helps.

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> Date: Sun, 22 Feb 2009 08:35:02 -0800 (PST)

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> Subject: Re: Roanoke Shop

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> I'm guessing during WWII there were 2 or 3 shifts in the shop, and 

> remember the workers were not long out of the depression, valued their 

> jobs, had great work ethics and under pretty strict shop foreman and 

> supervisors !! THEY GOT-ER DONE !!?Ron H.

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> Subject: Re: Roanoke Shop

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

> Date: Saturday, February 21, 2009, 11:32 PM

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> John,

> ?

> Generally for the A, J and Y6's, about one locomotive per month. During 

> WWII, it was about?one per every 2-3 weeks. For the S1a's, three?were 

> built about?every two months.

> ?

> This new construction was done along with the other locomotives receiving 

> classified repairs, often the same shop personnel performing both 

> simultaneously.

> ?

> Bud Jeffries

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> What was the capacity of Roanoke Shop to build locomotives? (on a per 

> month basis)? Could they have built 2 per month, more?

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> Thanks,

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> John R.

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> Subject: N&W in 1909--Graham depot

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> Bluefield Daily Telegraph

> April 2, 1909

>

> THE GRAHAM DAILY NEWS

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> Loafing at the Depot

>

>    The Graham Daily News has been asked by several of Graham's most 

> prominent citizens to give its views on the loafing question around the 

> Graham depot.  It doesn't seem that anyone, be he black or white, would 

> have business at the depot the whole day through, crowding the persons who



> wish to go away on the train out of the waiting room.  Now this habit of 

> loafing at the depot has become a rank nuisance, and the town council 

> aught to pass a law prohibiting it, as all other towns of good standing 

> have done.

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> Bluefield Daily Telegraph

> April 3, 1909

>

> IN CITY AND COALFIELD

> ------

> Officials Change

>    E. J. Shauffner [Microfilm blurred.  Best interpretation shown.], who 

> has been general foreman of the shops here for some time, left yesterday 

> for Roanoke where he will take charge of the west end round house, 

> succeeding J. J. Barry, who was appointed master mechanic of the 

> Pocahontas division, effective April 1st.

>

> Carload of Laborers

>    A carload of Hungarians passed through yesterday morning going to 

> various points in the coal fields.

>

> Foot Badly Mashed

>    T. R. Fink was the victim of a painful accident yesterday afternoon on 

> the east end yard, when a heavy rail fell on his left foot, mashing that 

> member badly.

>

> Princeton Division Point

>    Roanoke Times:  Division Superintendent L. R. Taylor and Chief 

> Dispatcher W. L. Melvin, of the Virginian Railroad [sic], have been 

> transferred from Roanoke to Princeton, W. Va., and the latter place is to 

> be made headquarters for a division terminus.  Victoria is to be the other



> division terminus.  This means that the Virginian has been divided into 

> three divisions, one from Deepwater to Princeton, one from Princeton to 

> Victoria, and the other from Victoria to Norfolk.  Mr. Taylor has already 

> moved to Princeton and Mr. Melvin will leave for that place in a few days.

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> The item "Carload of Laborers" describes the group as 'Hungarians'.  From 

> my historical readings, particularly the Johnstown Flood of 1889, the term



> was used not to indicate nationality, but to identify them as somewhat 

> undesirable and of a lower class.  For example, the term was used in 1889 

> in many reports of looting, alcoholism, etc. after the flood.

>

> Jerome Crosson

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> In a message dated 02/22/09 16:39:26 Eastern Standard Time, 

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

> Bluefield Daily Telegraph

> April 3, 1909

>

> IN CITY AND COALFIELD

> ------

> Officials Change

>    E. J. Shauffner [Microfilm blurred.  Best interpretation shown.], who 

> has been general foreman of the shops here for some time, left yesterday 

> for Roanoke where he will take charge of the west end round house, 

> succeeding J. J. Barry, who was appointed master mechanic of the 

> Pocahontas division, effective April 1st.

>

> Carload of Laborers

>    A carload of Hungarians passed through yesterday morning going to 

> various points in the coal fields.

>

> Foot Badly Mashed

>    T. R. Fink was the victim of a painful accident yesterday afternoon on 

> the east end yard, when a heavy rail fell on his left foot, mashing that 

> member badly.

>

> Princeton Division Point

>    Roanoke Times:  Division Superintendent L. R. Taylor and Chief 

> Dispatcher W. L. Melvin, of the Virginian Railroad [sic], have been 

> transferred from Roanoke to Princeton, W. Va., and the latter place is to 

> be made headquarters for a division terminus.  Victoria is to be the other



> division terminus.  This means that the Virginian has been divided into 

> three divisions, one from Deepwater to Princeton, one from Princeton to 

> Victoria, and the other from Victoria to Norfolk.  Mr. Taylor has already 

> moved to Princeton and Mr. Melvin will leave for that place in a few days.

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Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2009 14:39:29 -0000
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Convention, 2009 

Time is passing, with no information other than the dates for Roanoke, and
no Arrow yet in 2009.

When might more details appear on the web site? Meanwhile, air line fares
are rising and/or the value of the pound has been falling so the sooner I
can decide if I can come, the better!

Ted Roberts, UK
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NW Mailing List wrote:


> Convention, 2009

>

> Time is passing, with no information other than the dates for Roanoke, 

> and no Arrow yet in 2009.

>

> When might more details appear on the web site? Meanwhile, air line 

> fares are rising and/or the value of the pound has been falling so the 

> sooner I can decide if I can come, the better!

>



Howdy Ted

I got the Jan-Feb-Mar 2009 issue this past week.  Inside is a comment 
that a brochure on the convention will be mailed shortly.

Take care
Bill

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Bluefield Daily Telegraph
April 3, 1909

VIRGINIAN RAILWAY FINALLY OPENED
------
Occasion Made Notable by Presence of  H. H. Rogers, Mark Twain and New York
Financiers

    Norfolk, April 2--The opening of the Virginian railway, extending from
Sewells [sic] Point, Norfolk, to Deepwater, W. Va., on the Kanawha river, a
distance of 446 miles, took place today with a most auspicious celebration
here, made more notable by the presence of H. H. Rogers, who personally
built the Virginian at a cost of about $40,000,000; Samuel L. Clemens (Mark
Twain), and several prominent New York financiers interested with Mr. Rogers
in the undertaking.
    The celebration festivities began with the arrival early in the day of
625 people from along the line of the new road on a special train of twelve
coaches and two Pullman cars.  It was an enthusiastic crowd, all wearing the
Virginian colors, orange and white.  The arrival of the excursion train was
followed two hours later by the arrival of Mr. Rogers and his guests on the
New York steamer Jefferson.
    The day was filled with events of interest, the program for the
entertainment for the visitors including an inspection of Norfolk harbor,
the Virginian coal pier at Sewell's Point--the largest in the world--with a
dumping capacity into ship bottoms of 36,000 tons per day; and, finally a
public reception to Mr. Rogers and his guests.
    Mr. Rogers will be the guest of honor at a $20-per-plate banquet here
tomorrow night.
    The Virginian railway, begun in March, 1906, was completed February 17,
1909.  More than 1,000,000 acres of land in West Virginia have been made
accessible by it and the road has opened up a large country never before
enjoying railway facilities.
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[There was only a small incidence of blurring in the microfilm of this
article, but there could be transcription errors, particularly in numbers
and proper names.]

Gordon Hamilton
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