The Arrow Vol. 29-3 errata

[NW Mailing List]

The captions for the photos on pages  35 and 36 should have been reversed. 
These errors were caught in the proofreading but failed to be changed in the 
final editing.

Louis Newton

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>   1. Re: Girder Bridge Question (NW Mailing List)

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> Was the Norfolk and Western name painted on the sides ?

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> Paul:

>>From my recollection, in the 70's N&W began using mass produced

> metal Pevler emblems to identify the railroad.  In the era of merger-

> mania, it was simpler to replace an emblem than to paint the bridge

> with the name of the new company.

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> Incidentally, N&W initially found benefits in greasing bridges because

> in blasting the old lead-based paint off, the maintenance people had

> to capture every fleck of old paint to satisfy the EPA.  Harry Bundy

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> Reading through Mason Cooper's article about "A Day at the Park Street

> Yard Office", I would like to pass on the following;

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> Page 8 refers to a "decidedly overpowered" Glasgow Turn with MoW cars in

> tow.

> There obviously was not a unit train of empty hoppers to be returned to

> the C&O at Glasgow this day (It would hard to say where the MoW cars

> were to be set off on line). All of that power would be needed to move a

> train of about 100 loads of coal off of the passing siding at Glasgow to

> Roanoke.

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> A caption on page 9 refers to train #40.

> I have been at a loss as to why Mason refers to shifters on the Roanoke

> District as having numbers? Those of us that worked there never knew

> these trains to have any number at all. They were always known by their

> names.

> Appo Turn - Worked between Roanoke and "Appo" (A control point signal

> near MP H184 a mile north of the station at Buena Vista.) The grade

> north out of town was known as Appo Hill.

> Buch Shifter - Worked between Roanoke and Buchanan serving the limestone

> quarries between MP H213 & H212.

> 1st & 2nd TV shifters - Working between Roanoke and Lone Star Cement Co.

> at the end of the Cloverdale Branch.

> Only later on in life, after the train clearances started coming over

> the printer, did these shifters get assignment numbers (V80 for the

> Buchanan job and V81 for the cement job). By then the Appo Turn had been

> abolished.

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> A mention was made to "1040" crew.

> The yard crews working the hump bowl was known as the "40" crews. The

> correct pronunciation for these crews would be Eight-Forty, Nine-Forty

> and Ten-Forty.

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> Top caption on page 13 says the train is making its way to the empty

> side yard. Being that the cars in the train are freight rather than

> empty coal hoppers and there are only two small units, the train is more

> likely to be making its way toward the westbound running track to the

> hump and then out the receiving or as everyone knows it, the "Big Hopper

> Yard". The "Empty Side Yard", being that most of them were the longest

> tracks in the north yard, was mostly reserved for long empty hopper

> trains. Long auto rack and unit coal trains could also be found there too.

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> Jimmy Lisle

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> On page 36 of the new Arrow, Vol. 29, the caption reads;

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> */Below:/**/

> /**/N&W Class E-2a 553climbs the 2.62 percent grade approaching 12th

> Street Station in Lynchburg.../*

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> However the picture is of E-3 #503 at the station platform in Durham.

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> On page 39 col. 2 paragraph 2 states;

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> /*Each wall is made of three pieces. I had to decide how these pieces

> would fit to each other....You can see how I addressed this situation in

> Figure 1.*/

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> No such thing can be seen in Figure 1. I guess somebody left the proper

> photo out?

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> I have to ask, who is doing the proof reading?

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> Jimmy Lisle

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