"Takin' Twenty" with the Virginian Brethren by Skip Salmon

Thu Oct 23 12:28:44 EDT 2014

Not totally true. Jim.

Before theWabash merger, where the Decatur-Moberly main parallels US 36 west of Springfield, a freight train derailed and a refrigerator car hit a pickup truck on the highway,

EdKing

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Yeah, I know. All you got to do to keep from getting hit by a train is STAY OFF THE TRACKS. They won't jump off and chase you. 

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Date: Thu, 23 Oct 2014 08:21:08 -0400
Subject: "Takin' Twenty" with the Virginian Brethren by Skip Salmon
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Last night I had the pleasure of "Takin Twenty" with six of the Brethren and Friends of the Virginian Railway.  We signed two Happy Birthday cards.  One is for one of the Best Friends of the Virginian Railway and President of the Roanoke Chapter NRHS,Jeff Sanders.  Jeff is the "whipper snapper" of the group at 68. The other one is for Dewey Houck former Virginian Railway Surveyor who will be 80 tomorrow.  Dewey is also very active in the Mullens area saving old artifacts and buildings especially those once connected with our beloved VGN.  We also made final plans for the Road Trip to Victoria on Saturday.

For Show and Tell and to answer last week's question, I took a recent ebay purchase.  The first standard VGN issue battery powered hand lantern was a Genesy made in Kansas City.  It has two lights and two switches and the housing is made of copper (coated with nickel I think).  This one I purchased on ebay has many cracks on the side and I can see how they did not perform as intended and why the VGN changed over to the Star.  I told the Brethren about an item I did NOT get on ebay (I was "sniped"):  A sugar and cream set made by Reed and Barton with VIRGINIAN RAILWAY on the bottom.  It went for $545.99.  The Genesy lantern seems to be out there in a lot of places and most look like they are in bad shape.  I paid $17 for it.

I told the Brethren about our Roanoke Chapter NRHS being asked by NS to loan our tool car #1407 for the movement of Y6a #2156 back to Roanoke from St. Louis.  When she gets here, the trinity of steam, an N&W class A, J, and Y will be on display together.....predicious!

Ernie Hubble was with us last night and I had to kid him a little about the Kansas City Royals being such a good team....he is a devout Giants fan.  He told a story about Minnie Pearl stating that "I want six female pall bearers with I die".  When asked Why, she responded "A lot of men wouldn't go out with me while I was living so I don't want them taking me out when I die!"  Landon Gregory told of visiting Richmond recently to his brand new grandson's birthday party.  During the visit he sneaked over to Colonial Downs.  His wife Sandra found out about it and quizzed him about how much money he lost.  Landon answered "I had a very good horse...it took six others to beat him".

We talked about the Amtrak Exhibition train being in town last weekend.  Someone asked why it had two locomotives and I had the answer.  The second "unit" is  Non Powered Control Unit (NPCU) #406 which has a generator for head end power,carries baggage and has the original cab...they call them "Cabbage" units

The Jewel from the Past is from March 27, 2008: "Since Cornbread is going to be 'laid up' for a while,while his new hip heals, he is considering taking up playing the piano.  Recently he inquired about someone who could tune his piano.  One of the Brethren suggested a fellow who could do the job.  Cornbread called him and the man said 'Yes, I can tune a piano, I can tune anything'.  This prompted Cornbread to respond, 'But can you tuna fish?'"

Time to pull the pin on this one!

Departing Now from V248,

Skip Salmon

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