NW-Mailing-List Digest, Vol 39, Issue 32 - N&W Personnel job titles

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In 1944:

Carl H. Tabor was General Manager

Russell G. Henley was General Superintendent Motive Power

Ed Payne - I don't recognize that name from that time period

Winston Laneave was Road Foreman of Engines, probably on the Scioto Division

----- Goetz was probably an Asst. Road Foreman. I recall hearing the name.

Louis Newton
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>   1. Looking for Abingdon Branch info (NW Mailing List)

>   2. Re: Looking for Abingdon Branch info (NW Mailing List)

>   3. Buddy Holcomb - The Boy with the Fishin' Pole (NW Mailing List)

>   4. N&W Personnel Job Titles (NW Mailing List)

>   5. More on Abingdon Branch (NW Mailing List)

>   6. Re: Looking for Abingdon Branch info (NW Mailing List)

>   7. Re: Engineer Bussey passes (NW Mailing List)

>   8. Cond. Ed Payne passes (NW Mailing List)

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> Message: 1

> Date: Sun, 25 Jan 2009 12:46:19 -0500 (EST)

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> Subject: Looking for Abingdon Branch info

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> My name is Joe Giannovario. I publish "O Scale Trains Magazine" and I

> model the N&W in the period from 1948-1958.

>

> I am designing a point-to-point O Scale layout based on the Abingdon

> Branch. I plan to build vignettes of Abingdon, Cedar Bluff, Damascus,

> Creek Junction and White Top. The Cedar Bluff and Creek Junction vignettes

> are basically scenic connectors to the other three vignettes.

>

> Here's my problem: I have a ton of information about Abingdon but can find

> little info about trackage, sidings and buildings at Damascus and White

> Top. I have photos of the depots there and that's about it.

>

> Is there anyone on this list who might have information that will

> elucidate these areas? You may contact me onlist or off.

>

> Joe Giannovario

> jag at oscalemag.com

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> Date: Sun, 25 Jan 2009 16:19:58 -0500

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> Subject: Re: Looking for Abingdon Branch info

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> Joe -

>

> First of all, Cedar Bluff was not on the Abingdon Branch.  It's a junction

> on the Clinch Valley Line east of Richlands where the Dry Fork line from

> Iaeger comes in to the Clinch Valley.

>

> I don't have a plan of either place, but at White Top there was a siding 

> on

> each side of the main; the north switches were just south of the summit 

> over

> which there was a wooden roadway bridge.  These sidings were about 

> 750-1000

> feet long (I don't have my timetable in front of me; there is one 

> duplicated

> in Louis Newton's "RAILS REMEMBERED" volume 3 which also has photos he 

> took

> at various places).  At Creek Junction there was a water tank on the hill

> side of the main and a switch opening north (Junction to the old Konnarock

> Branch) with a spur, about 500 feet long.  The "Depot" was an old wooden

> boxcar in an advanced state of deterioration.  It had been painted MofW 

> gray

> at one time.

>

> Damascus was a little more complicated, and I'll defer to others for that

> one.

>

> Where are you getting your Ms?

>

> EdKing

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>> My name is Joe Giannovario. I publish "O Scale Trains Magazine" and I

>> model the N&W in the period from 1948-1958.

>>

>> I am designing a point-to-point O Scale layout based on the Abingdon

>> Branch. I plan to build vignettes of Abingdon, Cedar Bluff, Damascus,

>> Creek Junction and White Top. The Cedar Bluff and Creek Junction 

>> vignettes

>> are basically scenic connectors to the other three vignettes.

>>

>> Here's my problem: I have a ton of information about Abingdon but can 

>> find

>> little info about trackage, sidings and buildings at Damascus and White

>> Top. I have photos of the depots there and that's about it.

>>

>> Is there anyone on this list who might have information that will

>> elucidate these areas? You may contact me onlist or off.

>>

>> Joe Giannovario

>> jag at oscalemag.com

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> Date: Sun, 25 Jan 2009 13:43:03 -0800 (PST)

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> Subject: Buddy Holcomb - The Boy with the Fishin' Pole

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> A year ago, I entreated the Indefatiguable Ole Detective, Ken Miller, for 

> information about that classic and widely used N&W publicity photo 

> depicting a Tom Sawyer'esque young boy with fishin' pole in hand, can of 

> worms at the ready, and bandage on toe, propped against a tree and looking 

> down from a cliff at a Class Y hauling a manifest freight along a 

> riverbank.

>

> Ken, who is never non plussed by even the most abstruse questions, sent me 

> the negative number and the date of the photo, and stated that it was 

> taken just west of Roanoke, and was posed on an escarpment?which was later 

> demolished (for lack of a better word) during excavations for the 

> Veteran's Hospital.

>

> Last evening, quite by chance, I was moving some books and ran across the 

> May, 1941, number of the N&W Magazine, which carried this photo on the 

> cover and captioned it "Railroad Man of Tomorrow."? By good fortune,?His 

> Grace the?Editor commented on the photo in his opening feature, "The 

> Cupola."? Saith the Editor:? "P.S. - Name of the boy in the picture is 

> 'Buddy' Holcomb, son of Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Holcomb of Roanoke,? 'Buddy' is 

> ten years old. 'Some day,' he says, 'I'm going to be an engineer.'

>

> Well, now !? Here we have something to go on !? Wouldn't it be delightful 

> to track Buddy down and get the story behind the photograph ?

>

> Buddy?must have been born in 1930 or 1931?(which would make him 78 or 79 

> years of age by now.)??

>

> A check with www.ancestry.com was fruitful.? Unfortunately, the 1940 

> Federal Census is not yet up on Ancestry (the 70 year period hasn't 

> expired.)???However, the 1930 Census shows a Joseph W. Holcomb living in 

> the Highland Ward of Roanoke, age 33, with the following other persons in 

> the home:?

>

> Margaret Holcomb, age 30

> Jean B. Holcomb, age 6

> Joseph W. Holcomb, Jr, age 3/12 (i.e. 3 months)

> Virginia E. Berkes, age 65, a "lodger"

>

> All of the above persons were shown as having been born in Virginia.

>

> Joseph W. Holcomb (the father) is shown as a Mechanic employed by the 

> Automatic Musical Company.?

>

> "Buddy" is a common moniker for a Junior, so I think we have a match.

>

> Okay, boys... I've done the spade work.? Now, you go and find Joseph W. 

> Holcomb, Jr. (or his descendents)?and get the story behind the photograph 

> !

>

> -- abram burnett

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> Subject: N&W Personnel Job Titles

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> I'm writing an article for the Arrow and would like to get job titles for 

> the following men ca late 1944.  I have something for three of the five 

> but don't know if the info is correct:

>

> C. H. Tabor - Vice President and General Manager

> R. G. Henley - Head of Motive Power Department 1928-1952, General 

> Mechanical Superintendent

> Ed Payne - Road Foreman of Engines

>

> For the other two, I only have last names -

>

> ? Leneave

> ? Goetz

>

> Many thanks for any help you can give me on this!

>

> Dave Stephenson

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> Date: Sun, 25 Jan 2009 16:13:14 -0500 (EST)

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> Subject: More on Abingdon Branch

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> I forgot to mention that I have a lot of the published reference books and

> magazines concerning the AB Branch. I have so far:

> The Virginia Creeper by Doug McGuinn

> N&W Steams' Last Stand by Mallory Ferrell

> The Last Steam RR in America by Link

> Sept 1975 RMC with article by Tony Koester

> Several Mainline Modelers with articles/drawings by Bob Hundman

> Tons of photos from the Internet

> Regional USGS maps that are from present day

>

> What I'm looking for are maps showing trackage from the 1940s to 1950s.

>

> Anyone know how to get Sanborn Fire Insurance maps?

>

> Thanks again if you can help.

>

> Joe Giannovario

> Publisher

> O Scale Trains Magazine

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> Date: Sun, 25 Jan 2009 16:37:55 -0500

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> Subject: Re: Looking for Abingdon Branch info

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> Joe, the Cedar Bluff that I know is not on the Abingdon Branch. Cedar 

> Bluff

> is located on the Clinch Valley line.  The archives probably has track

> charts of the branch.

> Jerry Kay - Portsmouth, Virginia

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> On Sun, Jan 25, 2009 at 12:46 PM, NW Mailing List

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>> My name is Joe Giannovario. I publish "O Scale Trains Magazine" and I

>> model the N&W in the period from 1948-1958.

>>

>> I am designing a point-to-point O Scale layout based on the Abingdon

>> Branch. I plan to build vignettes of Abingdon, Cedar Bluff, Damascus,

>> Creek Junction and White Top. The Cedar Bluff and Creek Junction 

>> vignettes

>> are basically scenic connectors to the other three vignettes.

>>

>> Here's my problem: I have a ton of information about Abingdon but can 

>> find

>> little info about trackage, sidings and buildings at Damascus and White

>> Top. I have photos of the depots there and that's about it.

>>

>> Is there anyone on this list who might have information that will

>> elucidate these areas? You may contact me onlist or off.

>>

>> Joe Giannovario

>> jag at oscalemag.com

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> Date: Sun, 25 Jan 2009 14:57:45 -0800 (PST)

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> I worked quite a few trips with Russell Bussey, four decades ago.? He was 

> a kind and temperate and gentle man.? I never heard an uncharitable or 

> hasty word pass from his lips.? He always had a smile on his face.? He was 

> a prince among men, and I shall never forget the example he set.

>

> I have several photos I took of him in engine cabs.? If anyone knows of 

> his descendants, I shall be happy to pass the photos along to them.

>

> Fidelium animae defunctorum per misericordium Dei requiescant in pace.

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> -- abram burnett

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> Date: Sun, 25 Jan 2009 21:36:03 -0500

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> Subject: Cond. Ed Payne passes

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> For those of you knew him, former Shenandoah Div. Conductor Ed Payne 

> passed away this morning. It is my current understanding that a graveside 

> service will be held at Evergreen Cemetary Thursday at 3:00pm.

> Jimmy Lisle

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