Fw: Roanoke Passenger Station/A Thought

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Right ...They were the first escalators  I can remember in Roanoke..I also
thought the Station was very Modern for its time..I got run out of there
as a 10 year old for Confusing the Trainman with a series of "Official
Railroad Hand Signals " I had learned from my Grandfather's Virginian Rule
Book..Ken Tanner,Cary,NC
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 > Subject: RE: Roanoke Passenger Station/A Thought
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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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 > > Subject: Roanoke Passenger Station/A Thought
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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
 > >