Information for N&W Railway Post Office presentation at the convention

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Frank,

 

Contact me off-line about my bona fides to proof your presentation about RPO
routes on the N&W.

 

N&W Annual Reports are good sources of system maps that would scan well and
be (unlike Official Guide maps)in color.

 

Regards,

 

Dave Lambert

 

dave at dglambert.com

 

 

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February 16, 2006

 

Good afternoon!

 

As you may know from reading the 2006 convention

information, I'll make a presentation about Railway

Post Office (RPO) routes that operated over the

pre-1961 N&W lines.  The presentation will include a

monograph I am writing that compiles information about

these routes.

 

One thing I wanted to include was a good 1930s N&W

system map, similar to what one might find in an

Official Guide.  When I pulled an issue to scan,

however, I realized that spine curvature on the pages

prevents a good conversion to a picture.  After all,

Roanoke is smack dab in the middle.  If anyone has a

high resolution system map --the style that has lots

of town names listed along the lines-- would they

please contact me off-list at f_scheer at yahoo.com? 

I'll credit the source, of course, and the map will

only be used for this project.  My intention is to cut

segments of the map to visually depict the route along

with a RPO traveled.

 

I'd also welcome a volunteer or two to read the

narrative that I'm drafting.  It will aid me greatly

to have other people provide feedback about the

content and how the information is organized.  I'll

exclude the graphics files from those drafts, since

they will make the file size unmanageable as an email

attachment.

 

Finally, many N&W historians haven't visited the

Hagerstown District or examined its operations.  I'll

have an "open house" at Boyce station before and after

the convention dates so people traveling along I-81

can learn more about the northern-most corner of the

N&W.  I've spoken with the community group that now

owns the renovated Shepherdstown station.  Ordinarily,

it is closed on weekends and only a dentist's office

in the station is open on weekdays.  If convention

attendees think they may want to stop by Shepherdstown

going to or coming from Strasburg, please let me know.

 I'll see if there's sufficient interest in asking the

group to have the station open for visitation on

Wednesday, Thursday, and/or Sunday.

 

Looking forward to seeing many of the faces behind the

names on this list in July....

 

Best wishes,

 

Frank Scheer

f_scheer at yahoo.com

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