Fwd: help with train artifact

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Hello,

I am an exhibit designer working on the new permanent exhibit at the
History Museum of Western Virginia at the Center in the Square in Roanoke.
We recently borrowed a "mail hook" from the Virginia Transportation Museum
to use in a grouping of N&W tools. However, after doing some research, we
don't think that it is actually a mail hook but a part of a tool of some
kind. I was wondering if someone there (a train buff and/or historian)
could identify this tool for us and let us know what it was used for,
approximate date, and so on. I would be grateful for any help you could
give me.

Attaching images below. The tool is 36" in length.

Thanks,

Michelle Babyok
michelle at design3va.com


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 See images at:
http://nwhs.org/wiki/show_image.php?id=242
http://nwhs.org/wiki/show_image.php?id=243
http://nwhs.org/wiki/show_image.php?id=244
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