Roanoke Passenger Station/A Thought

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Those escalators were indeed the very first ones in the Roanoke Valley.

Dave George
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> Jimmy:
> 
> You probably could think of it as looking like a coal mine, but at the
> time, I thought it was very modern. It had both enclosed stairways and
> escalators. I don't remember any other escalators in Roanoke at the
> time. If there were any, I don't believe any could have been as long as
> the ones in the train station. My brother and I got "shooed" off the
> escalators several times for trying to run up the down escalator.
> 
> What gauge are you planning to use for your modeling?
> 
> Ed Gorman
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>        This week I was talking to a friend and mentioned to him my
> desire 
> to model the Roanoke Passenger Station. He asked what era and I said the
> 
> '50s, to which he replied that at that time it looked too much like a
> coal 
> mine. I didn't give that much thought until today when I got to thinking
> 
> about it and saw where he could come to that conclusion.
>        What do you think? Did the Roanoke Station in the fifties remind
> 
> you of a coal mine? If so, do you think Lowey intended it that way given
> 
> the N&W's service to the coal industry?
> 
> Jimmy Lisle
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