Covered Hoppers

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Harry,

    Yeah, in the 70"s the place was booming. We had a contract with the N&W to do the inspections in both directions. We did hundreds of thousands of dollars of foregn billing until the NS merger and traffic re-routing through Alta Vista.  Finally in July of '84 they put up a 5-day notice and closed the shop. I was history!! Nowadays the yard is pretty busy. They have four "locals" working out of Collier, no yard jobs. The yard is still officially closed. If they put on a yard job, I understand thay will have to pay us a bunch of back pay!! It's the busiest closed yard on the east coast! LOL

Walt
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  From: nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org 
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  Sent: Sunday, March 26, 2006 5:56 PM
  Subject: Re: Covered Hoppers


  Walt:
  I think the City of Richmond had a case, but I don't know what they
  settled for.  Incidentally, the runaway car didn't hit a flood gate;
  it hit a door in the flood wall.  I heard about the incident from two
  sources. NS was good about keeping its employees up to date and
  would circulate copies of newspaper clippings from across the system.
  I read about the collision, but by word of mouth I heard about the
  failure of South Rocky Mount to connect the brake system.  I guess
  NS had a car inspector at Belle Isle and he is the one that took the
  hit.

  Now let me axe you a question -- Collier Yard was the source of some
  interchange traffic with good revenue for N&W.  Of course after CSX,
  the Collier interchange kinda dried up.  Back in SBD days, Collier was
  supposed to take some pressure off Acca Yard (Richmond).  Well,
  Collier Yard is under new management now and it looks like it's
  underutilized.  On the other hand, Acca is now stuffed full of so many
  cars, that CSX has connived the government into building a runaround
  track so Amtrak doesn't interfere.  What's going on at Collier these days ?
                                                              Harry Bundy


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