Norfolk: Railroad Photos ca. 1960

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On 3/11/2022 8:27 AM, NW Mailing List wrote:

> In the latter years of the operation of the Shaffers Crossing Hump, 
> there seemed to be a confusion of language among the younger people.  
> Many people had come to refer to the entire Receiving Yard (all 20 
> tracks) as the Big Hopper Yard.  But the railroaders  who were one and 
> two generations ahead of me (the 1926 men and the 1940 men) reserved 
> the term Big Hopper Yard to mean tracks 1 thru 10.  At least one 
> article published in one of the trade journals substantiates this.  
> Tracks 11 thru 20 were never referred to as the Big Hopper Yard, or as 
> part of same.

Abe,
     I know that by the early seventies the receiving tracks 1 - 20 were 
all known as the "Big Hopper" yard. Yardmasters and Trainmasters 
referred to them as such. How it got that name, I have no idea, but, I 
have a feeling that it came about when they quit yarding trains in the 
old Park St. "Pull up" and started yarding them in tracks 11 - 20. Then 
there is the mystery of how did the little used "Nelson Crossover" get 
its name?

Jimmy Lisle
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