Tank location

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Mike -

Vance was just west of that new electronics plant a couple of miles below the Weaver Pike underpass.  It was about at the foot of the hump between there and Bluff City.

Southern steam engines were serviced at the N&W roundhouse.  There was a water tank west of the roundhouse used for both roads.  Southern locomotives could be seen in the roundhouse next to N&W locomotives.  

It was a busy place during WWII.  Southern 2-10-2s were rated at 1600 tons west of Bristol while N&W Y-6s were rated at 3100 east.  

EdKing

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Sent: Monday, June 13, 2016 10:21 AM
To: NW Mailing List 
Subject: Re: Tank location

Ed,

Appreciate your response. Which leads to two additional questions: Where was Vance Siding? And, did the post-war SR steam locomotives take on water at the NW tank or had Southern into Bristol gone totally diesel by then?

Mike


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On Jun 12, 2016, at 8:14 PM, NW Mailing List <nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org> wrote:


  Mike - 

  As far as I know, the name Vance’s Tank was an old name; there may have been a tank there at one time but there was none in the post war era.

  The siding’s official name was “Vance”.

  EdK

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  Sent: Sunday, June 12, 2016 9:46 AM
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  Subject: Tank location

  Question to Ed King: Where on Vance Tank Road was the water tank located in Bristol, TN? The Bristol, Virginia tank I am familiar with as it still exists near the roundhouse segment. 

  Thanks,

  Mike Pierry, Jr.

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