Is "Parent Company" a Misnomer? Rails and such . . .

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Another N&W rail peculiarity I would welcome comments on:  For a span of years in the late "60's and early "70's much of the mainline between Farmville and Welch (the area I visited most frequently) consisted of spans of 39' rail welded into 78' lengths.  Was this N&W's tentative toe-in-the-water first trial of semi-welded rail?  I believe neighbors C&O and Southern already had extensive mileage with welded rail by then.  My impression is that N&W was slow to adopt welded rail to any great extent.  Maybe it had to with the stresses they felt that long coal trains put on the longer lengths of rail.  Didn't seem to bother C&O, though.

Sam Putney
 
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  Correct, Ed.   In '87, there was 132# welded rail from
  Vera to the top of Irvington Hill.  From there to
  Sardinia, it went to 130# "Head-free".  From Sardinia
  to Clare, it went back to 132# welded rail.

  Two weeks ago, the Roadmaster was in Bonsack
  overseeing some outside contractors from
  Louisiana cutting brush along the right of way.  He
  noted that there is still  130# PS rail between Vabrook
  and Lynchburg on the Durham District.
                                                         Harry Bundy  





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