Classic Calendar - slight adjustment.....

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Thankee, Charlie!

EdKing
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> Uncle Ed wrote:

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>     "...The C&O came into Alexandria over the Southern from 

> Charlottesville."

>

> Actually, a little further north at Orange, VA.....

> You're welcome....

> Charlie Long

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>>From: NW Mailing List <nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org>

>>Sent: Dec 8, 2007 8:45 AM

>>To: NW Mailing List <nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org>

>>Subject: Re: Classic Calendar faux pas?

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>>Don't know about the engine, Mark (except that it wouldn't have been an 

>>N&W one) but the Atlantic Coast Line didn't go to Alexandria.  That 

>>crossing was the Richmond, Fredericksburg and Potomac going over the 

>>Southern main line.  The ACL didn't get any closer to Alexandria than 

>>Richmond.  The C&O came into Alexandria over the Southern from 

>>Charlottesville.  The ACL and SAL trains came in over the RF&P.

>>

>>Ed King

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>>  From: NW Mailing List

>>  To: NW Mailing List

>>  Sent: Saturday, December 08, 2007 5:52 AM

>>  Subject: Re: Classic Calendar faux pas?

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>>  OK History Buffs!  When I was very young, We lived in Alexandria, just 

>> 1/5 mile from the crossing of Southern tracks and Atlantic Coast Line 

>> tracks(CSX,ATL, Seaboard??).  I believe it was spring of 58, but possibly 

>> '59.  Mid morining.  Mom was cleaning the 2nd floor windows and called me 

>> to see a STEAM ENGINE coming north into Alexandria.  I missed actually 

>> seeing the engine, but saw the smoke rising from the trees.  As a Steam 

>> engine was by that time an unusual event, I was wondering If anybody had 

>> any idea what engine it was?  It almost HAD to be a Norfolk and Western K 

>> or J, and pulling one of the Southern trains.

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>>  Mark Lindsey

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>>  On Dec 7, 2007, at 9:05 AM, NW Mailing List wrote:

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>>      I might not have paid any attention to this if I hadn't have read it 

>> in a review of the N&WHS Calendar's in "Model Railroad News". The review 

>> noted and gave an example that "the calendar featured historic dates in 

>> the railroads history alongside national holidays."

>>      The example given was for Feb.20, "1957: Class K2a 129 pulls the 

>> last steam powered train 2 from Hagerstown to Roanoke." I raised an 

>> eyebrow! Could MRN be right about this? Surely MRN made a typo.

>>      Now, with my interest piqued and being the good "Valley" boy that I 

>> am, I turned my "Classic Calendar" to February 2008. Scrolling down 

>> twenty days to when George was born, I find that gadzooks! It does say 

>> that "...the last steam powered train 2 from Hagerstown to Roanoke"!

>>      Oh well! What can I say? Only that the Classic Calendar is...

>>  #1

>>   with me!

>>  Jimmy Lisle

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