VGN Barriger Images - NEW LINK

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Thank you so very much, Abram.
It's nice to not see hoppers lettered for the NAINIGRIV.
If you want to learn even more about the railroad west of Roanoke, please
join us in Mullens some fall.  Love to have you.  (Still a master of
subtlety).

Frank Bongiovanni

On Sat, May 29, 2021 at 9:18 AM NW Mailing List <nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org>
wrote:

> There has been an apparent problem with access to the VGN Barriger images
> I loaded on Google Drive last evening.  Probably the result of placing a
> space-age toy in the hands of an old geezer.
>
> So I re-loaded everything and here is a new link (which has been tested.)
> Access is not restricted... anyone with the link can open and download the
> images.  101 images, 41 megs.
>
>
> https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1uRoj7aDI3mKnaXqAVFTOtXEX3qlndQUZ?usp=sharing
>
> In doing this work, I realized how little I knew about the VGN west of
> Kellysville, so received a real education by studying the satellite imagery
> for locations represented in the various images.  Given what the engineers
> faced in the way of hostile terrain, they did an outstanding job in
> locating the Right-of-Way.  My hat is off to the Virginian... Long Live the
> Virginian !
>
> Also, I learned that coal loading facilities in Appalachia are properly
> called **tipples,** not breakers, not colleries.  My thanks to Col. Hensley
> for giving me this element of remedial education...
>
> -- abram burnett
> No Mo' Turnips
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