Dwight Coaling Station

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Ken 
Thanks for the details & references. 
Herb Edwards



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> On Dec 17, 2023, at 9:18 PM, NW Mailing List <nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org> wrote:
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> Herb:
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> Dwight was initially a Wilsondale type of coal wharf, with a platform where coal was shoveled or dumped from a platform parallel to the track. It was a few hundred feet west of Milepost 39.
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> https://www.nwhs.org/archivesdb/detail.php?ID=213068
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> https://www.nwhs.org/archivesdb/detail.php?ID=212954
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> About 1910, the overhead type of coal wharf, similar to what was originally at Vicker was built. This with a balloon track is depicted in this drawing:
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> https://www.nwhs.org/archivesdb/detail.php?ID=226644
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> Which I would daresay was several hundred feet west of the original location, today, it is an elevation change there, and it really does not be a lot, maybe 15-18 feet, but not a trace remaining from the aerial view, but I’d take a guess that the dark area running across the track is pretty close:
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> https://www.google.com/maps/place/Dwight,+VA+23898/@36.8566501,-76.8162104,1066m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m6!3m5!1s0x89b0159c82bd724f:0xcb62765f3017aaec!8m2!3d36.8532054!4d-76.8121814!16s%2Fm%2F04c2mhl?entry=ttu
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> Best
> Ken Miller
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>> On Dec 17, 2023, at 6:07 PM, NW Mailing List via NW-Mailing-List <nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org> wrote:
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>> The photo of the coaling station @ Dwight shows a cut through an elevated hillside with a coaling dump shoot to coal mainline power below. Google maps show Dwight near Zuni between Ivor & Windsor. That area is very low & swampy.  Where would the topography elevation allow for such an arrangement?
>> Herb Edwards
>> Lynchburg 
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>>>> On Dec 17, 2023, at 3:28 PM, NW Mailing List <nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org> wrote:
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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.
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>>> Gordon Hamilton
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>>> 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
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>>>> 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.
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>>>> Gordon Hamilton
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