Norfolk Question: Passenger Engines

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What about in 1955?
Glenn Fisher

>     On 10/14/2020 12:48 PM NW Mailing List via NW-Mailing-List <nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org> wrote:
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>     In the 1940's, the mode of operation was to let
>     eastbound passenger trains pull toward Lamberts
>     Point and back into a stub track.  After that the
>     eastbounds headed into a stub track.  Before the
>     locomotive could be taken to Lamberts Point for
>     service, passenger had to detrain,  mail, baggage and
>     express had to be unloaded, and the coach yard
>     switcher had to couple to the consist and take it
>     to the coach yard for service before the locomotive
>     could be uncovered.  Seems like there were
>     advantages to the World War II method.  Harry Bundy
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