Dwight Coaling Station

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I wish that I could answer your question, but the photos is all of the 
information that I have.  Hopefully, someone else has more information 
or an look up the info in the archives.

Gordon Hamilton

On 12/16/2023 11:23 PM, NW Mailing List wrote:
> Gordon -
> How long did the Dwight facility operate? /it's my understanding that 
> when they  when they           put on 77 and 78 that they had to put a 
> fresh engine on at Crewe for the return trip because there was no main 
> line coaling station east of Roanoke and one engine couldn't make it 
> from Roanoke to Petersburg and back without taking coal comewnere; 
> taking the engine off at Cterwe to coal it would take too much time, 
> so they just put a fresh engine on to go back to Roanoke./
> That was still a remarkable run for coal burning steam locomotives - 
> 900 miles from Portsmouth to Petersburg and back using just four 
> locomotives, and they could have done it with three if they could have 
> coaled east of Roanoke.
> - Ed King
>
> On Sat, Dec 16, 2023 at 1:20 PM NW Mailing List 
> <nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org> wrote:
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>
>     Several months ago in a posting about the Vicker coaling station
>     on the Radford Division,  there was mention of a coaling station
>     at Dwight on the Norfolk Division.  In my files I ran across some
>     pictures of the Dwight facility that I had copied from NWHS
>     Archives valuation files for some long ago article that I was
>     working on for _The Arrow_.  I am attaching the pictures for
>     whatever interest they may provide.
>
>     Gordon Hamilton
>
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