Virginian caboose scrapped at Ashville, OH

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Chalk it up to basic ignorance of rail history, i.e., just plain not  
knowing what they had, or just not caring. Would it's fate have been  different 
if it had "VIRGINIAN" markings?
There's a VIRGINIAN marked cab on display in a suburb of Chicago that you  
can get a brief glimpse of in the movie "The Fugitive". I hope that  one 
doesn't suffer the same fate at the hands of the unknowing and  uncaring. And 
what's a VIRGINIAN cab doing near Chicago anyhoo?
 
Greg Harrod
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In a message dated 8/13/2010 10:13:35 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,  
nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org writes:

For reason unclear to me, the former Virginian caboose  located next to the 
N&W depot at Ashville was scrapped this week. There  was an article about 
it in the Circleville Herald today but not being a subscriber I  cannot read 
it all online. The caboose was built as Virginian hack 315 in 1947  and 
served the Virginian and  N&W proudly until it was donated to the Village of 
Ashville by NS in the  early 80's. After donation it was moved to it's own 
track adjacent to  Ashville's former N&W/Scioto Valley depot where it sat until 
this week  With the caboose being in relatively good condition, except for a 
few windows  etc, I am quite shocked how it got to this.



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