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Harry
Thanks for the tonnage breakdown. I knew there was an extreme grade coming out of Island Yard & at least to the City limits, but sorta assumed that the pusher would cut-off at some point not too far out of Lynchburg (Naruna you mentioned) 
It’s a shame that just about all current  traffic is coal going to Clover, Hyco & Mayo. The line is pretty much “dead” past the Hyco cut-off. With the current administration’s push for renewable (non-coal) energy, I wonder how much longer these 3 generating plants will be in operation. 
Thanks for your & Gordon’s recollections. Best I can remember are the early Alco’s. 
Herb Edwards



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>   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? 
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> Probably interchange traffic -- coal to D&S and Southern, and nothing to Norfolk Southern Rwy, which had
> only 60# rail on the Durham Branch.   The real killer was the tonnage ratings southbound out of Lynchburg.
> From 1954 Norfolk Div. Time Table #7,  a Y-3 or Y-4 could handle only 1490 tons Island Yard to 12th Street
> (there was a 2.62% climb from Durham Junction to 12th Street).  That calculates out so that one Y-3 or Y-4
> could, for example. only handle 20 loaded 50 ton hoppers (50 tons for the load and 24 tons for the tare
> weight of the hopper).  Twelfth Street to Naruna, the rating was 2250 tons and Naruna to Durham 2800 tons.
>                                                                                        Harry Bundy
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