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On Thu, Sep 24, 2020 at 4:33 PM Gordon wrote:

> Harry,
>
> This is great info, thanks.  With this new info, I think it is time to
> summarize all of the info that has been posted on the Mailing List about
> the discontinuance of passenger service between Lynchburg and Durham, so
> here goes.
>
Here is the SCC info that covered conversion to mixed freight operation. "By
petition filed with the Commission the Norfolk and Western Railway Company
seeks authority to revise the schedules of passenger trains Nos. 35 and 36
between Lynchburg, Virginia, and the Virginia-North Carolina State line and
to operate these trains in mixed passenger and freight service." Case 11452
was ordered on February 12, 1953, and heard in April 1953. See
https://nwhistory.info/articles/scc.html#11452

The request was denied and Commissioner Cantrell issued a long statement
about it: https://nwhistory.info/articles/scc4.html

The Norfolk & Western appealed to the Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals and
the order was stricken. There was a new filing in October, 1953:
https://nwhistory.info/articles/scc.html#11805

A new filing was heard and the order of March 26, 1954, allowed the N&W to
"revise the schedules of passenger trains Nos. 35 and 36 between Lynchburg,
Virginia, and the Virginia-North Carolina State line and to operate the
trains in mixed passenger and freight service" once North Carolina
authorized the change in schedules between the NC state line and Durham.
See https://nwhistory.info/articles/scc.html#11805-2

Here is the SCC order that covered the end of Passenger Service on Trains
Nos. 71 and 72 Between Lynchburg, Virginia, and the Virginia-North Carolina
State line: https://nwhistory.info/articles/scc.html#13475

The order to allow discontinuance was Granted, effective July 14, 1957.

Bruce in Blacksburg
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