Structures in N&W's Lamberts Point Yard

Tue Mar 14 17:29:40 EDT 2017

The rotary dumps also had the capability to "blend" the coal between the  
two or four rotary dump units, besides changing the proportions by rolling 
cars  from different tracks off the Barney Yard. The speeds of the individual  
belts carrying the coal from under the rotary dumps thru the loaders to the 
 holds of the ship being loaded could also be adjusted.  The Japs 
absolutely  loved that, and provided N&W with a huge selling advantage over the 
Massey  and C&O Piers on the other side of the Elizabeth River.

I've got pictures at our Smith Mountain Lake (SML) retirement  home.  But 
we won't get back there until later this summer.  I also  recall having an 
olde VHS video that my young son made ala the TV show  Middle/ Goldbergs for 
school interviewing PierMaaster Bob Welch at the scales  and retarters. It 
included clips of the Barneys, rolling cars off the hill, cars  in the 
kickbacks, the belts and others.

Cheers.

Bill Browder

In a message dated 3/14/2017 11:43:26 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time,  
nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org writes:

Thanks for your reply.  It never occurred to me that coal could  be 
frozen, but now I think about it, it makes perfect sense.  I guess a  hopper size 
mass of coal wouldn't go through the rotary very well.  LOL

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On Mon, Mar 13, 2017 at 8:16 PM,  
Jack
wrote:

Using Google Earth, I looked at N&W's Lamberts Point Coal Yard  in Norfolk. 
 When I zoomed in, I saw two long white structures that  coal hoppers pass 
through on the way to the coal rotaries.  Does  anyone know what these white 
structures are used for?  Thanks,

Thawing sheds. Coal  loaded in the winter in and leaving the mountains of 
Virginia and West  Virginia wasn't always bone dry and had the opportunity to 
have rain or snow  fall on top of it. The coal would then freeze solid, in 
addition to freezing  to the sides of the hopper. A trip through the thawing 
shed (which used, I  believe, infrared heaters) would warm the cars sides 
enough to melt the ice,  allowing the coal to fall out of the car when it was 
rotated to dump.

Bruce in  Blacksburg

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