Coal shifters on Pocahontas District

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I must have missed it in this conversation, and if I did, my apologies, 
What motive power was used in the '50's on these "Mine Runs"?  Steam 
engines as well as early (for the N&W) diesels?

Walter Davis, playing with trains in Youngsville, NC


On 10/29/2018 8:40 PM, NW Mailing List wrote:
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> Mr  King --
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> Help me out.  I never worked the Pokie, but the only term I heard used 
> around Bluefield for those jobs was "Mine Run."
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> Did they call those mine jobs "Shifters" on the Pokie ?
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