Recollections

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Gordon: precisely the type of recollection (and with a relevant
picture)that a lot of us want.  Your reasoning to get those memories
recorded while its possible is also spot on.

Frank Bongiiovanni

On Fri, Jul 7, 2023 at 7:02 AM NW Mailing List <nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org>
wrote:

> 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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