VGN Trains 3 & 4 on the New River Division - Questions

[NW Mailing List]

I have been puzzling over the operation of VGN New River Division Trains 3
and 4, as published in the Jan 1952 Official Guide.  Copy attached as a PDF
file.  Here are the items I do not understand :

1.  Did VGN trains 3 and 4 run into Charleston?

1A.  If so, did the trains use C&O Charleston station, or NYC Charles
station?

1B.  If so, did the VGN crew take the train all the way, running over the
C&O or NYC, or was the VGN crew and engine changed out for handling to
Charleston by the crew and engine of the connecting road ?

1C.  If No. 3 went to Charleston, where was the engine laid over and
serviced?

1C.  If crew and/or engine were changed for a C&O or NYC crew, where was
this crew change done?

1D.  Or did Train 3 terminate on the VGN at the hamlet of Deepwater or DB
Tower, neither of which had a ticket office a depot (present population
183) ?

1E.  If the train terminated at Deepwater, were the crew and engine
returned to Page for relief, layover and servicing ?

1F.  The schedule carries Train 3 to DB Tower.  What was at DB Tower?  Was
it an interlocking?  Of so, was that the connection to the C&O or the NYC,
and was it a VGN tower or a C&O or NYC tower ?

2.  Did the same VGN Train Crew and same VGN Engine Crew take No. 3 all the
way across the NewRiver Division, or were the crew and/or engine changed
out at Princeton, or some other point ?

Yes, I should have asked these questions 60 years ago.  But thanks for the
push, if you can give one.

-- abram burnett
The Voice of the Digital Turnip Sub-Culture
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <https://pairlist6.pair.net/pipermail/nw-mailing-list/attachments/20250924/014b994a/attachment-0001.htm>
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: VGN TT Page from Jan 1952 OG.jpg
Type: image/jpeg
Size: 1801619 bytes
Desc: not available
URL: <https://pairlist6.pair.net/pipermail/nw-mailing-list/attachments/20250924/014b994a/attachment-0001.jpg>