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Thanks Harry. 
I plan to have a combination station so LCL is a good point. 

By definition, doesn't that mean the train crew would stay and unload the package to the station agent and keep the boxcar connected to the train?  (rather than leave the car on a siding)

Tom Lewis

On Jun 21, 2013, at 11:21 AM, NW Mailing List <nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org> wrote:


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> Tom:

> Late one fall afternoon, I was called from West Jefferson and asked to expedite a document from

> Roanoke to the Ashe County Court House for abandonment proceedings to be held the next day.

> That meant I drove a company automobile, stayed at a motel, and attended part of the hearings.

> At that time, N&W presented documentation that it was handling only seven cars per week

> on the Branch, which was served only on Wednesdays.  The most prominent shipper overhauled

> generators, so I can't tell you this business was there 1930-1950.  There was one type of

> traffic you could count on 1930-1950 --- L C L.  That's less-than-carload freight, usually shipped

> in company-owned box cars.  Contents were maybe Sears mattresses or a keg of vinegar for

> a local pickle factory, but not items usually carried by Railway Express (fresh fruit in cartons from

> Florida).  Another was coal -- the NC Public School system usually heated with coal, so the

> Ashe County schools probably spotted cars at West Jefferson for distribution. Harry Bundy

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