portable "step boxes"

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Thanks Ray for the info! I have updated the slides in the database.

- Roger LInk


On Wed, Oct 26, 2022 at 11:11 AM NW Mailing List <nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org>
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> Thanks for sharing these additional slides.
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> Yes, all are at Kemper Street Station in Lynchburg.  The train is No. 18,
> the northbound Birmingham Special and the time, if on time as it was most
> frequently was, is 7:50am.
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> The lounge/diner on the end of the train was added in Roanoke and will
> continue to Washington.  I was once on the ground at Sweet Briar, about
> twelve  miles north of Lynchburg, when No. 18 went past very slowly because
> of track work.  The smell on frying bacon coming from the diner was
> wonderful.
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> Also, in one of the  pictures of the end of the train there appears to be
> a southbound Southern Ry freight passing.  This is likely the southbound
> local freight which worked from Monroe  to Dundee (Danville) and returned
> northbound about twelve hours later.
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>      Ray Smoot
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> *Sent:* Wednesday, October 26, 2022 10:34 AM
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> *Subject:* Re: portable "step boxes"
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> These slides are from the NWHS "Don Ball Collection". There are few shots
> that appear to have been taken the same day at Kemper Street with the same
> people.
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> https://www.nwhs.org/archivesdb/detail.php?ID=90688
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> https://www.nwhs.org/archivesdb/detail.php?ID=90634
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> https://www.nwhs.org/archivesdb/detail.php?ID=90816
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> https://www.nwhs.org/archivesdb/detail.php?ID=90786
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> There is also this shot which looks like it might be Kemper street as well
> from the same collection. Can anyone verify?
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> https://www.nwhs.org/archivesdb/detail.php?ID=90803
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> - Roger Link
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> On Sun, Oct 23, 2022 at 8:41 PM NW Mailing List <nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org>
> wrote:
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> Just recently ran across this nice step-box image again in the archives.
> It also wonderfully captures the interaction between the porter and the
> young passenger.
>
> John Garner
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> https://www.nwhs.org/archivesdb/detail.php?ID=90688
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> They were not used just at Crewe. I can remember seeing step boxes used
> at stations with platforms. That first step is pretty high for some
> people. The portable step boxes were pretty much standard in the 1940's
> and '50's. And, I think I remember, not just on the N&W.
>
> Jim Nichols
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