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In a message dated 10/31/04 9:28:33 PM Eastern Standard Time, scribit 
Ronaldo: 
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Can you or Don tell us where the Crozier Iron works were located?
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Jah, of course.

On the south side of the N&W yard at Roanoke, just west of 24th Street. That 
facility was called the "West End Rolling Mill."  As I recall, it was about 
equidistant between the Yard and Patterson Avenue. 

I also think they had a facility (perhaps an earlier one) east of "Furnace 
Crossing" (just east of Roanoke Shops... why do you think it's called "Furnace" 
Crossing??? )  but I'm too many years away from all these topics to have good 
recall on specifics.  I believe David H. Flickwir might have been involved in 
this facility.  Of course, it was situated in that location so that it might 
easily provide iron to the Roanoke Machine Works (East End Shops.)  When 
switching in that area back in the 1960s, I remember that the ground was covered 
with what appeared to be slag from a furnace.

Somewhere I have pictures which I copied (using a hand-held 35mm camera with 
old PanAtomic ASA 32 film) from books in the Rivinus Room of the main Roanoke 
Library, back about 1960.  But you'll probably git to the Rivinus Room for 
syourself long before I find them th'ar prints in m'ah messy basement !

-- abram burnett 
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