Recollections

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 From time to time someone posts on this site that we should be 
recording recollections of N&W/VGN veterans (aka old timers) before 
those individuals are gone.

In this vein, I thought of an incident that may be interesting to those 
on this list.

As background, I worked the summers of 1952-54 as a laborer servicing 
steam locomotives in the N&W shop in Durham, NC (plus the summer of 1955 
as a similar laborer in the Winston-Salem, NC shop).  One day a special 
train arrived in Durham from Lynchburg, VA with a PRR clearance car like 
the one shown below with the feelers extended  (some of the N&W people 
called it a "porcupine car" for obvious reasons).

I had occasion to talk to one of the PRR operators of the clearance car, 
and in the course of our conversation he told me that the track on this 
N&W branch line from Lynchburg to Durham was smoother than anything on 
the PRR outside of the Northeast Corridor!   Makes you kinda proud 
doesn't it?

Gordon Hamilton



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