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Chuck
I have eaten at Clarksville Station several times over the years, although not in recent years. I highly recommend that anyone on this list who might be  heading down 501-S between Roxboro & Durham to stop there & enjoy a great meal. The inside decor is full of photos & memorabilia.  The Woodsdale station sits off to the side & is/was being used as an office or something, but  not for dining. Preservation of both buildings was impressive. 
As a ‘local’, have your recently checked the condition of the ROW east of the Hyco/Mayo connections to the EOL just beyond the Roxboro city limits? 
The last time I drove the roads paralleling the Durham line from Woodsdale through Roxboro, the ROW was not being maintained & the rails looked “unused”.  
Thanks
Herb Edwards

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> On Feb 6, 2021, at 11:17 PM, NW Mailing List via NW-Mailing-List <nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org> wrote:
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> Herb,
> Do you go visit the old Woodsdale station at the Site of the Clarksville Station Steakhouse?  It looks good.
> 
> Gordon,
> The coal trestle at the Durham Shops site is still standing.  Hope you are doing well.
> 
> Chuck Stewart
> Bahama (Durham County), NC
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>>> On Feb 6, 2021, at 4:05 PM, NW Mailing List via NW-Mailing-List <nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org> wrote:
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>> Gordon
>> I feel for you guys in the shops. How much time did you all have to service & turn the “Y’s”?  Sounds like a lot of tonnage moving between Lynchburg & Durham during those years.  This was pre-Hyco & Mayo coal movements.  Do you remember what the freight consist was that would require so much motive power? Was it mostly overhead traffic to be interchanged or mostly destined to N&W served customers? 
>> My uncle, R. G. Robertson was the station master @ Woodsdale. My earliest memories were of watching the sets Alcos roll by with mixed freight in the late ‘50’s (missed steam daggonnit!). 
>> Thanks
>> Herb Edwards
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>>>> On Feb 6, 2021, at 5:49 AM, NW Mailing List <nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org> wrote:
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>>> I worked as a laborer in the N&W Durham shop the summers of 1954-56 and I heard much mention of a "Winfall pusher.  This pusher assisted freight trains out of Lynchburg's Island Yard, up the stiff 2.6 percent grade to 12th Street and on another 16 miles to Winfall where so-named pushers cut off to go back to Island Yard.  Some pushers, however, continued on the train all of the way to Durham.  These were Y class steam locomotives and when two came in on a train it put quite a strain on us laborers and other crafts in that small, sparsely-equipped shop to get them serviced.  You can imagine what we felt on one memorable day when a train came from Lynchburg with double-headed Ys on the head end and a Y pusher on the rear--all of which needed servicing!
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>>> Gordon Hamilton
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>>> On 2/5/2021 1:49 PM, NW Mailing List via NW-Mailing-List wrote:
>>>> Quite often, in steam days, time freights were pushed all the way from Roanoke to Winston-Salem. Even, in the diesel era, Belews Creek coal trains are pushed on the Punkin Vine.
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>>>> Dick Kimball
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