Ed's article, SR, engines in TRAINs

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Yes, Ed. George is right. Nice article in TRAINS. Love those Ps-4s.
Charlie Long

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>Ed:

>Nice article in Trains.

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>George Weber

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>What Picture?

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>EdKing

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>	Some recent mention of the Marion and Rye Valley RR on the

>Mailing List induced me to sent this message for whatever interest it

>may have to someone who doesn't know about these items already.

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>	In the course of looking through N&W Ry. Annual Reports

>(available on a CD through the NWHS Commissary) I found it interesting

>that the N&W had invested in a couple of Southwest Virginia short lines

>thru bond ownership, i. e., the Marion and Rye Valley RR, which

>connected to the N&W's Bristol line at Marion, VA, and the Beaver Dam

>RR, which connected to the N&W's Abingdon Branch through an N&W branch

>out of Damascus, VA.

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>	The attached picture of a Beaver Dam RR tunnel through Backbone

>Rock now used by Tennessee Highway 133 is interesting.  The story is

>that after the tunnel was completed and the track laid, it was

>discovered that the locomotive's smokestack would not clear the roof of

>the tunnel, so the roof had to be hand chiseled for clearance.  The

>result seems to be evident in the picture.

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>	Gordon Hamilton

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