NW-Mailing-List Digest, Vol 79, Issue 46

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I don't know if this info. has been listed but in the 1966 issue of "List  
of Stations and Sidings', Kumis, VA is listed as being 260.9 miles from 
Norfolk,  station #11257 and is between Wabun, VA and Lafayette, VA on the 
Radford  Division.
 
Tom B.
 
 
In a message dated 2/24/2012 8:20:19 A.M. Eastern Standard Time,  
nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org writes:

Harry:

I am sure the N&W and VGN had longer ones or  similar sized names as
Charlottesville. I thought Sou just referred to it  usually by its'
tower's call sign, "JC". Southern also had Barboursville,  Alexandria,
C&O had Gordonsville and the list goes on and  on.

Bob  Cohen

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>> Date: Thu, 23 Feb 2012 11:57:41 -0500 (EST)

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>> Subject:  Re: Whence the Name "KUMIS" ?

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>> While  making no claim to  insights about the name Kumis, I can offer 

that

>> after forty  years of living in Montgomery County, I have never heard  

the

>> "locals"  use the name, have never seen it in the  newspaper, and never

>> seen it on maps  or road signs. The  community near there is Lafayette. 

The name

>> Kumis appears a  railroad related name only.

>>

>>

Railroads often  identified locations by railroad-related names  e.g.
Page, WV for W.N.  Page. Or Adsit for VGN's Traffic Manager ?  Plunkett
for W. C.  Plunkett, a barrister for the VGN ? Don't know that VGN
ever had  an officer named  Kumis. Perhaps he was on VGN's Bored  of
Directors. Some railroad locations were identified by  local
industries, e.g. Mabrico on the Winston District for MAdison  BRIck
CO.. The "MI" in Kumis may have reference to a  mine.

>>

Virginian apparently had the foresight not to name it La  Fayette (as
it appeared in early timetables). In repeating train orders,  locations
are pronounced then spelled. Kumis was certainly shorter (by  four
alphas). On the Southern, think how much time was spent  spelling
Charlottesville.


>>  Harry  Bundy

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