Mail transportation on the N&W Tug Fork Branch

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Tom,
 
The Employee Time Table for January 1930, shows Third Class (mixed trains) for he following Pocahontas Division branch lines; Pond Creek, Lewis Creek, Honaker and Big Creek.  You might want to get a copy of the re-print from the N&WHS store if they are still available.

Charlie

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Subject: Re: Mail transportation on the N&W Tug Fork Branch
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Date: Friday, October 23, 2009, 2:53 PM



I too am interested in how any non - coal hopper traffic and how much of it was moved on branches mostly existing to service coal mines. 

I have a small O scale railroad that is loosely based on an N&W coal branch.  I always assumed that a boxcar of mining supplies or other freight would just be mixed in with the coal hoppers and brought up on a mine turn when needed.  

However I have many steam era boxcars and a 4-8-0.  I would love to a model a daily mixed freight on my coal branch.

Any further info is greatly appreciated.

Thanks is advance.
Tom Lewis,
Jax,FL 




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Date: Wed, 21 Oct 2009 19:55:20 -0400

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Subject: N&W in 1910--Mail service



Bluefield Daily Telegraph

April 7, 1910



NEW MAIL SERVICE

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Inaugurated on Tug Fork Branch of Norfolk and Western



The Norfolk and Western has inaugurated a new mail service on the Tug Fork 

branch.  Two mails a day now go to Anawalt and this service is greatly 

appreciated.  The people along the Anawalt section now want an opportunity to 

get the train to lay over at Pageton or Anawalt at night instead of at Gary as 

they figure in this way they will be able to go to Welch or some other point and 

return the same day.  An effort will also be made to get a local freight service 

on the line.  There are eighteen or twenty mines on the Tug Fork branch and the 

coal companies along the line feel that enough business goes to and from these 

operations to warrant a local freight.  It is likely that a petition will be 

prepared asking for such an extension of the local freight service.

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[If there were no local freight service on Tug Fork branch how did these 

eighteen or so mines get the material for the tipples and mine material such as 

rails, cars, etc?  As far as that goes how did any mines get started before the 

railroad reached the mine location?]



Gordon Hamilton





October 23, 2009



Hello, Gordon:



Wasn't "local freight" service primarily for carload and less-than-carload 

merchanidise freight?  My recollection is that "mine runs" on the N&W were not 

considered local freight.



Regarding the mail service, the Railway Mail Service Third Division would have 

made a determination that mail volume and dispatches warranted mail being 

handled on a second train.  Although there were frequent communications between 

a railroad's manager of mail (who also usually handled the express company 

service relationships, too) and the district RMS staff, the added service would 

have been initiated by the RMS, not the N&W.



Good morning,



Frank Scheer

f_scheer at yahoo.com



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