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

Fri Oct 4 09:15:24 EDT 2019

Bill and Gordon,

I interviewed George P. Bowman, who was retired General Foreman of Shaffers Crossing Terminal.  Was he overall in charge of Shaffers Crossing and the roundhouse foremen were subordinate to him?

You mentioned the Shaffers Crossing and Roanoke locomotive shops.  Was the one at “Roanoke” at the Roanoke Shops?

Very interesting,

Bud Jeffries

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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

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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

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Sent: Saturday, September 28, 2019 11:30 AM

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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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