VIRGINIA DIVISION HOPPER TRAINS

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?Also, there are a number of tunnels which are too low to allow double stack trains on the V line, making at least two reasons why the pig trains, at least, will continue to run over the Blue Ridge.?
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Kenneth Rickman?
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You mention that the Altavista District won't clear double stacks -- back in January
the other Ken mentioned he'd picked up a double stack train at Linwood.? Guess
there have been improvements over the 13 years since my retirement, but very
vividly I remember an A.M. Report that noted a double stack had failed to clear
an overhead bridge at Salisbury and the resulting impact had knocked?out Duck
Energy service to customers in Rowan County.? Seems?the double stack was to
set off at Charlotte, but Atlanta had put the car in the wrong block.?? Will the
former Southern main track now clear double stacks ?

Some hopper trains MUST use the V-line.? There are certain hoppers originating
on the Durham District that won't clear Durmid Tunnel.? Normally, hoppers from
Hyco and Mayo come back to Lynchburg and go west on the Blue Ridge District.

The oversize hoppers come back to the connection near Brookneal, then go west
on the V-line.? This according to Landon Gregory- Chief Dispr. -Norfolk Div. (ret).

Don't know if the practice is still in force, but the grades on the Durham District
really affect the tonnage ratings.? Time was the unit trains would leave South
Yard in Roanoke with 90-100 loaded hoppers en route to the Durham District.? Then
NS found they could add?a 60 (or so) car Tidewater fill and still be within the tonnage
ratings on the Altavista District.? The fill would set off in the passing sidings at Seneca
or Brookneal -- so there are two sidings eliminated for meeting westbound traffic.
????????????????????????????????????????????? Harry Bundy
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