Fwd: Re: Blue Ridge station - color photos

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>Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2003 23:10:29 -0400
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>Subject: Re: Blue Ridge station - color photos
>
>Russell:
>
>You'll find Blue Ridge in cream/brown on the cover and on p. 32 of the 11/97
>issue of Mainline Modeler.
>
>The station of course is long gone.  Several years ago I walked the stretch
>from the old station site up to Buford's Gap, whence EB coal drags, the Blue
>Ridge grade now behind them,  rolled down to Montvale and on to the coast.
>The stone crusher Eastward within sight of the station is  still there, as
>is much of the trackage off the WB main that served the stone crusher.  Near
>the gap I scooped up in an old Ball jar a quart of cinders from the bowels
>of As, Js, Ys and Zs that once honed the legend of Blue Ridge.  To this day
>the cinders there are still ankle deep at least. At the station site all I
>could find were rusted spikes and rail joiners, and you can be sure I
>grabbed a few of those mute witnesses to "the way it was" and now display
>them, next to the jar of cinders, in our basement hard by a Blue Ridge grade
>N-Scale layout.
>
>Frank Gibson
>
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>Sent: Sunday, July 13, 2003 5:36 PM
>Subject: Blue Ridge station - color photos
>
>
> > I would like to obtain color photographs (or copies thereof) of both the
> > white/green and cream/brown schemes of the station at Blue Ridge,
>Virginia.
> > I'd be very grateful if anyone can provide these, in the form of *.jpg or
> > whatever. If you can lead me to a source (other than _N&W in Color_) for a
> > color illustration, that would help, too.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Russell Henley
> >
>