Looks like today is the last day for the N&W station at Forest, Va...per Roy

Tue Apr 3 22:28:29 EDT 2018

In about 1953 or 1954 my father took me and several friends on a train ride from Lynchburg to Bedford for my birthday.

We rode on No. 7, the Petersburg to Roanoke local which departed Lynchburg about 3:45 (after a 25 minute stop to work the mail and express)  and had a 4:05 flag stop at Forest.  And I recall that the train did indeed stop at Forest.  I returned several times over the next sixty years to see the station as it gradually deteriorated.

No. 7 most often was pulled by a streamlined K and had a consist of two to four mail cars and a coach, as best I can remember.

     Ray Smoot

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Subject: Fw: Looks like today is the last day for the N&W station at Forest, Va...per Roy

Sad day in Forest, Va.,

Roy Evans took this photo of the N&W Forest, Va. station being demolished on April 2, 2018.

Thanks to Lee Hawkins and Roy for sending me this {Roy's} photo.

Keep up your efforts to preserve railroad history. Please consider joining the NRHS today!

Best,

Norris

Norris Deyerle

Blue Ridge Chapter, National Railway Historical Society Chairman of Virginia's Rail Heritage Region Partners and

Lynchburg Rail Day 2018 Model Train Show Coordinator

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Lynchburg, Virginia 24502-4908

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