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Yeah, Sam, you are right. I have been away from there for a long time. One 
forgets the difference between APCO and AEPCO.  Jim Nichols



> To be even pickier, Rev Jim, it was most likely an APCO truck belonging to 

> Appalachian Power Company, the subsidiary of AEPCO (American Electric 

> Power Company) that operates the Glen Lyn power plant.

>

> As a footnote, several years ago AEPCO decided to do away with all the 

> regional subsidiary names and the APCO label was removed from everything, 

> including the trucks.  Then, two or three years ago they revived the 

> Appalachian Power Company name and it's back on the trucks and on the old 

> headquarters building on Franklin Road in Roanoke.  I never stopped making 

> my checks out to APCO, and they never had any trouble cashing them.

>

> Sam Putney

>

>>

>> Jerry:  It was an AEPCO truck. That's who ran the power plant at Glen 

>> Lyn. Glad to learn that you guys were all that close to where I was.  Jim 

>> Nichols

>>

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>>>I was there, too, helping clear the debris from US 460. A VEPCO truck (or 

>>>some

>>> such power co>>>

>>> Jerry Kay, Portsmouth, VA