Pier 4 atLamberts Point

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In a message dated 12/15/2011 8:45:32 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,  
nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org writes:

Harry

Did they mention the last attempt to find a use for Pier  4?  Someone 
perhaps a marketing type came up with the idea of using the  pier to dump stone 
into barges or ships.  The first shipment was less  than satisfactory.  They 
tried to dump rip rap or armour stone.   Needless to say the barge received 
heavy damage to the bottom.  That was  the end of Pier 4.

Drs. Newman, Blackstock &  Associates-
   No, there was no mention of dumping stone from Pier 4.  I  can't say 
what the advantage was,
   but at the time the Chesapeake Bay Bridge- Tunnel was  built, there was 
a movement of rip-rap
   that went to the former VGN piers to be transferred to  barges. Most of 
it came from a quarry
   south of Emporia and was interchanged ACL to  N&W at  Jarratt and 
brought to Sewalls Point on
   No. 72.  In one instance, the old NS ran a four-car stone  special from 
Neverson, NC to Norfolk
    just to meet a  deadline.                   Harry Bundy
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