Is "Parent Company" a Misnomer?

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Was there not also some "head-free" rail on the Peavine?

EdKing
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  Right, Dave, there was some 130# PS rail in the westward
  main track until 1984.  N&W renewed the rail in the
  eastward main track between Poe and Suffolk 1971-75, but
  the westward main track east of MP 66 still had jointed
  rail. The track handling the most tonnage got the
  welded rail first.

  There was even some "head free" rail  in spots from
  Portlock to Waverly.  "Head free" rail is shaped like
  a triangle. I'd never taken an interest in the stuff until one
  Sunday afternoon when returning from home to Roanoke.
  Along US 460 near MP 55 (between Wakefield and
  Waverly), there was an eastbound coal drag halted.
  on the east track.  From the highway, one could see
  hoppers not exactly upright, yet nothing fouled the westbound
  main track.  There was a chunk missing  in the 132# CWR
  and the engineer had managed to get things stopped 
  without a pile - up, although some wheels were on the
  ground.

  It was one of those Sundays when Mr. Claytor  had Eng 611
  on an excursion train to Petersburg.  Sure enough, the
  psgr extra passed the coal train as if everything were all
  right, up tight, and outta sight.  That's when I took a look
  at the track chart and found it was running on 130# head-
  free rail rolled in 1930. 
                                                   Harry Bundy





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