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Harry -
 
Sorry for the delay in responding, but I've been out of pocket near Moneta, 
 Virginia..  I took my six year olde laptop to the local computer geek last 
 Tuesday, who told me Friday PM that the motherboard was fried. I arrived 
back in  Leesburg from SML late this afternoon.  Way too many Yankees up 
here.   I'll be much happier when me and my supervisor of 42 years get moved to 
Smith  Mountain Lake permanently.
 
I'll bet I can rival your Fayetteville stories with my own when I worked  
the night shift at Decatur, Alabama, in 1977 and 1978.  Southern had remote  
control over the Tennesse bridge at Decatur, Alabama, and thus  movements of 
the Long and Nasty (alias L&N) and the short lived AutoTrain  from Sanford 
to the mid-west. 
I made sure that I reported any of my created delays to my Superintendent  
Paul Rudder and Super Chief, Ray Truitt, both in Knoxville.
 
Have a great holiday season and happy new year.  Cheers.
 
Bill Browder
 
ps - Prior to my 42 year career with the railroads, I went thru school on  
an NROTC scholarship and was on several ships in and out of Norfolk, Little  
Creek, and NOB over an eight year period, 1961 thru 1969!
 
 
 
In a message dated 10/29/2015 9:32:57 A.M. Eastern Standard Time,  
nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org writes:

 
Bill:
What ever gave you the idea that CSX might screw NS ?   I am
appalled.
 
Pre-1982, N&W proposed running unit trains to  Dominion's
Wheelwright plant on the former SAL's Hopewell  Branch.
This would have offered Dominion competitive rates.  N&W
trains would have used about 12 miles of CSX  tracks.  But
CSX responded that there was too much traffic on  this
non-signaled branch (two local freights per day) to  accommodate
N&W.
 
OK, how about an arrangement where N&W trains  got
on CSX at Secoast and traveled to Wheelwright  from
Bellwood ?  That's when Dominion said "forget  it".
 
In 1980, the rates charged for rail shipments no  longer
were available for public scrutiny.The charge was considered
a contract between the shipper (or receiver) and the  railroad.
Two years deep into a 10-year contract, CSX determined  that
they weren't making any money hauling coal for  Dominion.
So John Snow got up with his golfing buddy, the CEO  of
Dominion, and Snow persuaded him to abolish the  contract.
None of this would have become public, but one of  Dominion's
traffic people spilled the beans (and was fired).   Dominion
was forced to pay its customers a rebate.\
 
Fayetteville ?  I was agent there for two days in Oct.,  1964.
"Captain Midnight", the grumpy old 3rd trick dispatcher ,  called
me at 3:00 AM and told me to be at Fayetteville at 8:00  AM.
It was 165 miles to Fayetteville, I had a full tank of gas,  $15
to spend, and a Phillips 66 credit card.  In an attempt  to dodge
this assignment, I told him that I didn't have any seniority  on\
the Western District.  His response ?  "You do  now". H. Bundy 
 
 
 
 







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