NW-Mailing-List Digest, Vol 102, Issue 7

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The inventory of classic N&W cabooses is depleted.  Often you take what NS provides.  Be thankful they provided a true N&W caboose and not a Southern bay window in N&W country like they have elsewhere.  The people who refurbished the Abington cab did an excellent job and should be commended.  -Jeff Hensley.


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>   1. Re: N&W seasons greeting (NW Mailing List)

>   2. Re: N&W seasons greeting (NW Mailing List)

>   3. Re: N&W seasons greeting (NW Mailing List)

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> Date: Thu, 5 Dec 2013 20:50:57 -0500

> From: NW Mailing List <nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org>

> Subject: Re: N&W seasons greeting

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>> Methinks politicians and "public policy" types must have made the choice

> on this dog, without the benefit of input of anyone with a fig of

> historical consciousness !

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> I suspect more so availability and not so much politics had something to

> play with the choice of caboose.  Who it was acquired from and when it was

> acquired (concidering its a C32P I suspect that it was after most if not

> all more histoically correct cabs were already gone) plays a part in what

> can and can't be done as far as accuracy goes.

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> As a tourist attraction it has been quite successful in that very few

> families that have their picture taken in front of it have a member who is

> NW knowledgeable. Be gracious, it is in a highly visible spot and speaks to

> the railroad's importance to this region.

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> Mike Pierry, Jr.

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>> On Thursday, December 5, 2013, NW Mailing List wrote:

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>> Why in tarnation would the Town Fathers of Abingdon have put that garish

>> piece of junk on their square?

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>> I can understand why they didn't want an N&W wooden caboose (viz.

>> maintenance problems,) but the N&W steel cabin cars from the 1920s numbers

>> 5184xx) were much more typical of equipment that ran through Abingdon and

>> one of them would have certainly made a more pleasing display.

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>> Methinks politicians and "public policy" types must have made the choice

>> on this dog, without the benefit of input of anyone with a fig of

>> historical consciousness !

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>> -- abram burnett

>>        the quintessential curmudgeon

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> Date: Fri, 6 Dec 2013 05:29:59 -0500

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> I remember when it arrived at Abingdon,and that was in early 2008 I

> believe.  I was also there helping flag the crossing at Fuller St. the

> day the movers lifted it off the tracks and onto a flat bed for a trip

> up the street to its current location.  I remember it well because

> that was in the fall of 2008 when I was the signal maintainer there.

> It was in awful shape at that time, and looks much better now.

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> It probably was "just a caboose" to the townsfolk.  I doubt by that

> time there were any wooden ones left.

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> As for me, I prefer the steel Virginian cabs!  I think they had a

> beautiful styling, and an old conductor told me they were the best

> riding of all of them in his opinion!

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> Ben Blevins

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>> On 12/5/13, NW Mailing List <nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org> wrote:

>> As a tourist attraction it has been quite successful in that very few

>> families that have their picture taken in front of it have a member who is

>> NW knowledgeable. Be gracious, it is in a highly visible spot and speaks to

>> the railroad's importance to this region.

>> 

>> Mike Pierry, Jr.

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>>> On Thursday, December 5, 2013, NW Mailing List wrote:

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>>> Why in tarnation would the Town Fathers of Abingdon have put that garish

>>> piece of junk on their square?

>>> 

>>> I can understand why they didn't want an N&W wooden caboose (viz.

>>> maintenance problems,) but the N&W steel cabin cars from the 1920s

>>> numbers

>>> 5184xx) were much more typical of equipment that ran through Abingdon and

>>> one of them would have certainly made a more pleasing display.

>>> 

>>> Methinks politicians and "public policy" types must have made the choice

>>> on this dog, without the benefit of input of anyone with a fig of

>>> historical consciousness !

>>> 

>>> -- abram burnett

>>>        the quintessential curmudgeon

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