N&W/C&O merger was Re: Crane

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Whit:
There WAS a plan for moving Tidewater coal originating on the C&O
to the N&W at James.   This was a station on the Old  Line through
Lynchburg (a large portion now abandoned) a few miles east of Island  Yard.
On the C&O, the station is known as Six Mile.  A connection  between the
two roads there would have been, well, quite an accomplishment.
 
Might add that on The Cardinal one summer, the  train was held
at Huntington account  derailment on the C&O at the Big  Sandy
bridge.  The train went to Kenova, picked up an N&W Road  Foreman,
then detoured via N&W to Chillicothe  and B&O to  Cincinnati.  By my
recollection, it took a back-up move to get on the B&O.
                                                               Harry Bundy
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