Pocahontas Coal Field Sign

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Thanks for the input everyone.  The sign on Flickr is definitely the one I am thinking of (although I'm still going nuts wondering where I saw the picture, as I know it wasn't online).  It's located at Bluestone Junction.  I haven't had the chance to go through the films listed yet, but a picture is what I really needed because I want to make a version of it for placement on my model railroad.  The Williamson "Heart Of The Billion Dollar Coal Field" sign is easy enough to find by doing a web search for that phrase.  The Entering The Billion Dollar Coal Field sign at Bluefield I haven't found yet, although the original one works best for my purposes as there will not likely be a street where I am planning on placing it, so the one N&W erected along their right of way fits my scene better.

Marty Flick


---- NW Mailing List via NW-Mailing-List <nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org> wrote: 
> Marty, here’s the photo that Larry is referring to. It is one of many beautiful photos in Bill Gordon’s collection, with steam locomotion spanning the middle fifties to the very early sixties:
> 
> https://www.flickr.com/photos/130647200@N05/35757713216/in/album-72157669851188905/
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> Matt Goodman
> Columbus Ohio US
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> On Jan 29, 2019, at 6:36 PM, NW Mailing List <nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org> wrote:
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> Saw it in a photo on flicker just this week . 
> 
> Larry Evans
> 
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> On Jan 29, 2019, at 1:30 PM, NW Mailing List <nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org <mailto:nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org>> wrote:
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> > Hey Marty
> > 
> > I know that billboard was shown in either of the company films the 1944 "Modern Coal Burning Steam Locomotives” or the 1940 "Power Behind the Nation” in color. I’ve seen, somewhere, a drawing for that billboard as well.
> > 
> > I seem to recall seeing it in a book as well, and thought it might be Jim Nichols color book, but did not see it there.
> > 
> > Best
> > Ken Miller
> > 
> >> On Jan 29, 2019, at 12:41 PM, NW Mailing List <nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org <mailto:nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org>> wrote:
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> >> I'm trying to find a picture I saw in a book.  It's of a sign, probably just outside either Bluefield or Williamson, that says "This way to the Pocahontas Coal Fields" or something like that.  I'm 90% certain the picture is in color.  I also want to say it is not in a book you would expect it to be; perhaps a generic mine book rather than N&W.  If anyone knows the picture I am thinking of or any other pictures of this sign, please let me know.
> >> 
> >> Thank you,
> >> Marty Flick
> >> 
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