Re Links color photo

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  JIM:

Appreciate your resourcefulness in capturing the two shots from the 
Pillars film.

The Boaz shot is a beaut, but it has been established, I think, that 
since the Boaz shanty was hard by the pusher siding, instead of standing 
right by the EB main track, as in Link's  Highball shot, Boaz is not the 
elusive venue.

The second shot:  another compelling photo, but alas, the structure in 
question is on the WB main, whereas the Highball shot is by a shanty on 
the EB main, since the train, I think all agree, was headed east, away 
from Roanoke.  The structure in the distance:  a section house?

ALL:  If Link's assistant on the Highball mission,  David Plowden (so 
says /Classic Trains/ per an earlier post) can be tracked down, we'd 
have an eyewitness account that should wrap up the venue question.  Can 
anyone help here?

DAVE:  Your research is surely useful.  Do the Link materials (which 
appear to point to a near Bridge 90 solution) show or reference a shanty 
there on the EB main?

Frank Gibson


On 9/6/2010 12:07 PM, NW Mailing List wrote:

> Jim, I believe you've shown the same area in the distance that's on the two photos I have here.  Can anyone determine if the crossover signals are recently installed?  The concrete base looks pretty "clean" and the silver (??) building on the left in the distance also looks new.  It's probably the same one I was referring to in a previous post.

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> Dave Stephenson

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> --- On Mon, 9/6/10, NW Mailing List<nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org>  wrote:

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

>> Subject: Re Links color photo

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

>> Date: Monday, September 6, 2010, 12:49 PM

>> I don't know if it will help but I am

>> enclosing a couple of frames from the video Pillars of Smoke

>> in the Sky. The first one show the Boaz shanty next to a Y6

>> pusher and the other one show a view looking east from a

>> lead engine on a train that has stopped to pick up a pusher.

>> In the distance is a building that may be a shanty by the

>> west main. Could that be the building in question? Sorry for

>> the lack of sharpness but this is a frame grab from the

>> video, not from the film.

>>

>> Hope this helps.

>>

>> -Jim Herron

>>

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