two VGN questions

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14 is probably a typo for 114, which would have been a correct number for one of the "squarehead" electrics, serviced at Mullins.

Jim Nichols 


On Friday, December 26, 2014 7:34 AM, NW Mailing List <nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org> wrote:
  


I 
hope everyone had a wonderful Christmas / Hanukkah / etc. 
 
Here 
is a new questions for all you N&W/VGN experts:  My brother is one of 
those that visits yard and estate sales and is on the lookout for VGN 
items.  So as a present this season he sent me a “monthly Locomotive Unit 
Inspection and Repair Report” – “ICC form No. 1-A” – elsewhere labeled a “From 
1490.”  It reports the March 1952 inspection of “locomotive unit No. 
___14___” that was inspected on 5 March 1952 at Mullens.  Item #1 on 
the form says “This locomotive unit is propelled by 
___electricity___.”  What unit was this?  #14 was one of the 
large conveyer cars on the docks – what was it doing in Mullens?  Am I 
wrong that none of the electrics were numbered 14?   
 
On 
another note, he also sent me a nearly 90 year old VGN “stringer.”  
Apparently stringers were long, vertical format descriptions of passenger 
specials.  Most (like the one I now have) were holed at the top so they 
could hang from a string (hence the name) or hook and be pulled off by 
interested consumers.  Usually printed on cheap newsprint and thus did not 
last long.  He found this one at a garage sale wound around an old Edison 
phonograph cylinder and thus not folded.  This one advertises a 15 June 
1926 junket from the mountains to Va Beach, as well as shorter trips just to 
Roanoke.  Near the bottom is the notation of “special coaches for colored 
people” – reflects the times of its release – both good and bad.  Anything 
like this in the archives?   
 
Michael 
Ross 
Ft 
Worth 
 

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