Question for Messrs. King and Hamilton - V.L. Minnick

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Bill,

Thanks for the additional info.  As I stated, my list was c. 1958.

Gordon Hamilton

On 10/2/2019 8:17 PM, NW Mailing List wrote:
> Further in connection with Mr. Hamilton’s list of Shaffers Crossing 
> supervisors.
> Also serving as Master Mechanics at Shaffers Crossing between Mr. 
> Francis’ promotion to Mechanical Superintendent and 1973 were W.H. 
> Morris and W.R. Kinsey.  In 1973 the management of Shaffers Crossing 
> Locomotive Shop and Roanoke Locomotive Shop were combined under W.K. 
> Ramsey.
> W.E. Honeycutt
> *From:* NW Mailing List
> *Sent:* Wednesday, October 2, 2019 2:26 PM
> *To:* NW Mailing List
> *Subject:* Re: Question for Messrs. King and Hamilton - V.L. Minnick
>
> For the record, below are some of the Motive Power supervisors 
> (including Charlie Wilkerson) and clerks at Shaffers Crossing that I 
> knew following my September 1958 return from military service.  My 
> feeble memory could not have produced this list, particularly titles, 
> without help from the NWHS program (still under development) that let 
> me search for names through a database covering some 58 years of the 
> N&W Magazine.
>
> M. R. “Buck” Francis, Master Mechanic
>
> C. M. Pettrey, Asst. Master Mechanic
>
> V. L. Minnick, General Foreman (office adjacent to Master Mechanic's 
> office)
>
> Henry Cornick, Chief Clerk, Master Mechanic's Office
>
> “Ham” Feather, Clerk, Master Mechanic's Office
>
> C. A. “Preacher” Hensley, Car Foreman
>
> Unlike the Shop Track (freight car repairs) the roundhouse operated 
> around the clock and had a roundhouse foreman on each shift.  Some of 
> those personnel are:
>
> George R. Brogan, Roundhouse Foreman
>
> R. J. Barry, Roundhouse Foreman, retired and replaced by:
>
> C. S. “Charlie" Wilkerson, Roundhouse Foreman; later Master Mechanic 
> -Locomotive-Roanoke Territory
>
> Earl Grace, Roundhouse Foreman
>
> Harry Whorley, Roundhouse Clerk
>
> Sonny Long, Roundhouse Clerk
>
> Don Muse, Roundhouse Clerk
>
> These names bring back a lot of mostly good memories.
>
> Gordon Hamilton
>
> On 9/30/2019 8:47 AM, NW Mailing List wrote:
>>
>> I thought that Charlie Wilkerson was the Master Mechanic at Shaffer's 
>> Crossing.
>>
>> Jimmy Lisle
>>
>> On 9/29/2019 9:18 AM, NW Mailing List wrote:
>>> I have no knowledge of V. L. Minnick slthough the name is familiar.
>>> When I got to Shaffers in 1959 Mr. Francis was MM.
>>> - EK
>>> *From:* NW Mailing List
>>> *Sent:* Saturday, September 28, 2019 11:30 AM
>>> *To:* N&W Mailing List
>>> *Subject:* Question for Messrs. King and Hamilton - V.L. Minnick
>>>
>>> A trip through an old N&W Magazine yesterday brought to memory Mr. 
>>> V. L. Minnick, who was for decades-on-end Master Mechanic (I think) 
>>> at Shaffers Crossing.  For a man whom we never saw, his name was 
>>> certainly ubiquitous.  It was shown on on kinds of shipping and 
>>> waybilling, and carloads of material were waybilled to "V.L. 
>>> Minnick, Shaffers Crossing."  One could not walk around the Shop 
>>> Track or the Round House without seeing his name stenciled on something.
>>>
>>> It occurs to me that Mr. Hamilton and Mr. King would have known him, 
>>> so can one of you please provide some details?  What was his first 
>>> name, where was his office at Shaffers Crossing, and what was his 
>>> work history?
>>>
>>>       -- abram burnett
>>>
>>> brakezman lost in the dark
>>>
>>>
>>
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