Caboose(s)- good story!

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A good story Ben. The next time I'm through Abingdon i'll have to take time to look.
Charlie long
Lynchburg

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>Subject: Re: Caboose(s)

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>I'm glad to say that I had a hand in helping with the caboose in

>Abingdon.  Even though it was by accident.

>

>I was on a temporary maintainer job while the regular maintainer was

>out on sick leave.  The day it was moved from the storage track I was

>headed to Abingdon to test the switches at Litchfield and Abingdon and

>arrived right in the middle of the event.  I took it upon myself to

>protect the crossing at Fuller Street since we had an eastbound train

>coming and there were people everywhere.  It reminded me a little bit

>of the excursion era.

>

>Of course, the train went by and the caboose got moved without a

>hitch.  Its really something to behold when a caboose gets lifted off

>the rail and onto a flatbed trailer.  After everyone cleared off away

>from the tracks I headed on out to do my daily chores.

>

>That's something I'll always remember.

>

>Ben Blevins

>

>

>On 6/26/09, NW Mailing List <nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org> wrote:

>> The volunteers in Abingdon (led by Chas Seaver) are getting the towns' N&W

>> caboose cleaned up and have begun painting (the undercarriage and wheels

>> are now a respectable black) and are to be commended.

>>

>> Also, my wife and I drove over to Finney (Sta) on the Clinch Valley Line

>> yesterday. (Her mother was a Finney.)  Here is a pic of he caboose on

>> display in "downtown" Finney.

>>

>> Mike Pierry, Jr.

>>

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>> http://nwhs.org/wiki/tiki-browse_image.php?imageId=46

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