Caboose(s)

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I'm glad to say that I had a hand in helping with the caboose in
Abingdon.  Even though it was by accident.

I was on a temporary maintainer job while the regular maintainer was
out on sick leave.  The day it was moved from the storage track I was
headed to Abingdon to test the switches at Litchfield and Abingdon and
arrived right in the middle of the event.  I took it upon myself to
protect the crossing at Fuller Street since we had an eastbound train
coming and there were people everywhere.  It reminded me a little bit
of the excursion era.

Of course, the train went by and the caboose got moved without a
hitch.  Its really something to behold when a caboose gets lifted off
the rail and onto a flatbed trailer.  After everyone cleared off away
from the tracks I headed on out to do my daily chores.

That's something I'll always remember.

Ben Blevins


On 6/26/09, NW Mailing List <nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org> wrote:

> The volunteers in Abingdon (led by Chas Seaver) are getting the towns' N&W

> caboose cleaned up and have begun painting (the undercarriage and wheels

> are now a respectable black) and are to be commended.

>

> Also, my wife and I drove over to Finney (Sta) on the Clinch Valley Line

> yesterday. (Her mother was a Finney.)  Here is a pic of he caboose on

> display in "downtown" Finney.

>

> Mike Pierry, Jr.

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