Hagerstown Transfer / Hagerstown Jct

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The N&W (now NS yard) has been known as Vardo since the early diesel
era, at least.  (Terry Marshall, are you there to comment?)

J. Kelling, Greenbelt MD


>>> <nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org> 10/2/2006 10:03 AM >>>

To answer two of the questions:

The Hagerstown icing facility was in Shomo Yard.  Also known as Vardo.
I have a photo somewhere which shows the icing facility in the 
background.  It looked like the typical icing facility, but only 
large enough to serve one or two tracks.  It is too long of a story 
to tell here, but Shomo yard dates from about the time of World War 1.

N&W and PRR shared a freight station in Hagerstown.  It was 
approximately two city blocks north of the passenger station. The 
building is still there, now owned by the Union Rescue Mission. This 
was actually north of the end of N&W track.  N&W facilities in 
Hagerstown were joint operations with wages and expenses split 
somehow between the two companies.

Rick Morrison





>

>So, I guess I am left with four Hagerstown-type questions:

>

>1.  Where was "Hagerstown Transfer" ?

>2.  What kind of icing facilities were located there?

>3.  Where/what was "Hagerstown Jct"?

>4.  Where was the N&W's freight station in Hagerstown?

>

>Too bad I wasn't possessed of these questions twenty-five years ago, 

>when there were still men working at Hagerstown who hired in the 1940s

!

>

>-- abram burnett

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