[VirginianRailwayEnthusiasts] Re: Trying to make sense of Norcross

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Gordon:
 
May we assume you meant 4-6-2?  Or did  you mean  K2a?
 
Thanks,
 
Dave Phelps
 
 
In a message dated 1/31/2013 5:02:24 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,  
nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org writes:

The track chart on Mike's link shows the situation  shortly after the Dec. 
1, 1959, merger of the Virginian and the N&W when  there had been some 
associated track changes.
 
In order to show more historic detail in the Norcross  area, I am attaching 
a somewhat diagrammatic sketch of that area based on a  July 14, 1914, 
Virginian track chart, Revised Dec. 31, 1953.
 
Although I didn't visit Norcross on foot as our friend  Lloyd Lewis wrote, 
in the summer of 1954 I did have  the privilege of riding an N&W  weed spray 
train, on which I was a  "short boom operator," from the N&W main line, 
across the New River  bridge, over the Virginian diamond and on up the Potts 
Valley Branch.   One unique feature of that day's spraying was that our motive 
power was a  Class E2a 4-8-2 passenger steam locomotive, which we were 
assigned in  Bluefield and which was pushing our train as the spray car on the 
lead  end of the train was spraying the track, including wetting the rail.   
When the train got on the approximately 1.5% grade, the 70" divers on the  
4-8-2 lost their grip on the wet rail, and we never reached  Kimbleton.
 
Gordon Hamilton
 
 

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From:  _Mike Dodd_ (mailto:mike at mdodd.com)   
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Subject: [VirginianRailwayEnthusiasts]  Re: Trying to make sense of Norcross



 
 
_tubepowerel84 at hotmail.com_ (mailto:tubepowerel84 at hotmail.com)   wrote:

> 

> Can the track chart be any help?:

> 

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Yes;  thank you.

It appears that I was wrong to assume that the VGN north  track was the 
passing track, as the track chart shows the south track as  the siding. 
No interchange track is shown, but I'll assume that was the  third track 
on my USGS map.

-- 
Mike

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