Missing caboose in Galax

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Their WAS 2 Cabooses in Galax. This goes back to before the rails where removed. NS brought them in about a year befour the last train, and they sat around the yard for a very long time

An Norfolk and Western one, and an ACY one. I had thought that the ACY one is the one that disappeared. If the one at the trail head is not a genuine N&W one, than it most certainly is the ACY one. (I remember it being an ACY caboose, because I remember when they first came to town, it was still in it's ACY/ "Akron Canton and Youngstown" paint.) When I started dating and running around in my own car, in the early 1990's their was a N&W "PAINTED" caboose up Edmonds road, across from where the old factory is. I remember that the Twin County RR Club, got possession of the caboose, and used the local reserve unit to move it to its present location in the late 1990's. The other caboose (the real NW caboose, that is missing from Galax), MAY, been the one in Fries it was moved by rail to its location right befour they pulled the rail up. I recall that the switch was unlocked to the track that is on, and a group of people pushed it from the small yard (not really a yard, 2 stub ended sidings) across from "downtown" to where it is now.

Let me know if I can be of anymore help.

Andy Jennings
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  Sent: Wednesday, January 25, 2006 8:20 PM
  Subject: Re: Missing caboose in Galax


  So there were not two cabooses in Galax?
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    Sent: Tuesday, January 24, 2006 11:07 PM
    Subject: Fw: Missing caboose in Galax


    I need to clarify..
     
    The one out Edmund's road, was moved to Galax several years ago, to the trail head, at US58.
     
    Sorry for the double post. But the point needed clarifying.
     
    Andy Jennings
     
    ----- Original Message ----- 
    From: andyj74 at earthlink.net 
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    Sent: Tuesday, January 24, 2006 5:09 PM
    Subject: Re: Missing caboose in Galax

    It is the same one beside TG Vaughn, on the trail parking lot, at US58
     
    Their was 2 cabooses in Galax long ago (1985), that one, and an ACY one. I THINK the ACY one met the torch
     
    Andy Jennings

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      Sent: Tuesday, January 24, 2006 9:45 AM

      Subject: Missing caboose in Galax


      Off-topic

      Someone was discussing cabs in Galax recently, and I am not sure if it was on here or not. We were trying to locate a cab that was last reported on Edmunds Rd in south Galax. I was out there yesterday, and I looked along the entire 3 miles of Edmunds Rd. If there is a caboose still out there, it is hidden inside a building or in some VERY thick brush or woods.

      I am sorry I did not save the original email message so do not know who was looking. Sorry.


        
      Bob Welsh




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