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

Sat Oct 5 14:13:51 EDT 2019

As I see it, Bowman as General Foreman in the Motive Power Dept. at 
Shaffers Crossing would have been over the Roundhouse Foremen just as 
General Foreman Minnick was.  Incidentally I knew another General 
Foreman at Shaffers Crossing, Joe Altizer, who may have been the one who 
superceded Minnick.  Altizer later quit the N&W and joined some 
industrial company as best as I remember.

Gordon Hamilton

On 10/4/2019 9:15 AM, NW Mailing List wrote:
>
> 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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> *Subject:* Re: Question for Messrs. King and Hamilton - V.L. Minnick
>
> 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:
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>     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
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>     *To:*NW Mailing List
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>     *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:
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>         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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