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

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When I was at Portsmouth in the mid-60's they were using "78"s (actually a pair of 39's welded together) in road crossings and in sharp curves.

EdKing
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  Subject: Re: Is "Parent Company" a Misnomer? Rails and such . . .


  In a message dated 10/31/2007 7:07:32 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time, nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org writes:
    My impression is that N&W was slow to adopt welded rail 
  You're right there, Sam.  Before the welding plant at Bellevue,
  rail-welding was done at the Roadway Material Yard at
  Shaffers Crossing.  In fact, that facility welded rail for the
  RF&P before welding rail for N&W. From recollection here,
  but I believe one of the Material Yard's first N&W projects was
  to weld rail for the tracks in the passenger station at
  Bluefield.
                                                               Harry Bundy






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