moving circa 1920
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Tue Aug 15 13:53:52 EDT 2006
This is great story. Shows family part rairoading.
CharlieLong
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>Subject: moving circa 1920
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>I thought that I would pass along a little story about
>how the railroad played an important role in folks lives
>in the 1920s. Also, it is something that I haven't
>heard discussed very often.
>
>My grandfather was born near Eggleston on the Virginian
>side of the New River in Giles County. Circa 1920 his family
>moved to Vinton. A few months before my grandfather passed
>away it crossed my mind that his family probably didn't move
>using a moving van. When I asked him about this he said that
>his father contacted the railroad and they set off a boxcar
>at a nearby siding for them. He could not remember where it
>was set off nor on which side of the river. My grandfather,
>his dad, and his brothers then used their horses and wagons to
>haul all their belongings to the boxcar and loaded them up
>themselves. I don't know if this was a full car load or not.
>Once packed the railroad moved the boxcar to Roanoke and on to
>Vinton. My grandfather gave all indications that it was
>set off on an N&W siding near downtown Vinton. So it
>is quite possible an interchange between the Virginian and the
>N&W was involved. The whole family rode one of the passenger
>trains to Vinton and from his recollections arrived at roughly
>the same time as the boxcar. His family then unloaded the boxcar
>and moved into their new house. Once empty they notified the
>railroad and the boxcar was sent off on its next assignment.
>
>Toney Minter
>
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