Norfolk Division Local Freights and Turns

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Thanks Ray!  I guess the Lynchburg Switcher out of Island Yard didn't go through the tunnel.  What was its limits, work and calling time?  Did it work all three shifts and what kind of an engine did it use?
Glenn

> On November 27, 2019 at 9:50 AM NW Mailing List <nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org> wrote:
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>     At Halsey (actually within the city limits of Lynchburg) there was a coal dealer and Lynchburg Ready Mix (concrete) and perhaps one other industry served in the 1950s.  There was a derailment of an engine (steam) at Halsey around 1955-57 and I recall going there and watching the work to re-rail it.  Many others gathered also and in this different time there was no effort by N&W to restrict watchers from the site.
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>     Interestingly, the original N&W mail line from Forest to Halsey is still in place to service the concrete plant still at Halsey. 
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>         Ray Smoot
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>     From: NW-Mailing-List <nw-mailing-list-bounces at nwhs.org> On Behalf Of NW Mailing List
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>     Subject: RE: Norfolk Division Local Freights and Turns
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>     Although I am still working on the Radford Division on my way east, I did come across the Halsey Shifter which worked out of Roanoke to Halsey and Bedford.  It left town behind a Z-1 after 7 am and returned around 9 pm.  I know that there was a limestone quarry at Blue Ridge but perhaps others can comment on the customers at Halsey, Bedford and elsewhere.
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>     Glenn Fisher
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>     Cornwall PA
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