NW-Mailing-List Digest, Vol 49, Issue 7 Origin of term Barney Cars

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Does anyone have a copy of the N&Ws first 1913 lift and tilt dumper and elevator operation.  The "clone" C&O 1914 dumper had a Barney Pit area . . . which I believe was used for servicing the electric motor trucks on the coal transfer cars. 



The newer rotary dumper pier would have used carryover terminology it seems. 



The primary pier contractor would put their name on the transfer cars, side-arm pushers and cable-pulled devices that pushed  coal cars into the loe-level dumpers.  Their construction might be sub-contracted out. 



Al Kresse 


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Thanks Harry for confirming about Lambert's Point: 

However the question still remains: WHAT is THE origin of the NAME 
"BARNEY" for the cars. Any ideas of the age and origin of that 
particular name? 

Thanks. 

Bob Cohen 



> Not sure about Sewells Point, but Lamberts Point 

> had a Barney Yard -- by my recollection, there 

> were two barney yards, sixteen tracks each. ?One 

> class of coal was put in each track, then using 

> an illuminated number panel showing the track #, 

> the pin puller would cut the car off to roll by gravity 

> toward the dumper. It was possible to dump four different 

> classes of coal at the two rotary dumpers at one time. 

> Harry Bundy 

> 

> Neither. I meant the Barney cars which move the or moved the hoppers 

> at Lambert's Point? 

> 

> Barney & Smith manufactured cars for railroads way back when and the 

> Birney streetcars made their presence well-known on trction systems 

> and a number have survived today. 

> 

> If I am using the wrong term for Lambert's Poinbt where they moved the 

> coal hoppers to be turned and dumped, those are what I am referring. I 

> had always thought they were referred to as Barney cars but will stand 

> corrected if I am in error. A friend asked me today. 

> 

> Bob 

> 

> 

> Do you mean the Barney and Smith cars, or the Birney Streetcars? 

>> 

>> Barney Barnier 



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Bluefield Daily Telegraph 
April 24, 1910 

PUSHED OFF TRAIN 
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Leg Cut Off and Head Mashed.  Unknown Man Dies in Hospital 

    A man with a leg cut off and his head badly smashed was found beside the track at Flat Top on Friday night, about eight o'clock.  He was unknown and in order to give him what medical and surgical attention was possible he was brought to this city and taken to a local hospital where he died a short time afterwards.  Only one clue to who the man was could be learned and that was a statement made by the man which was only partially understood.  He said that his name was Hollman or some name which was similar and than his home was in Staunton, Va. 
    The man was riding a freight train and it appears that he was robbed of a grip he was carrying and then pushed from the train. 
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Bluefield Daily Telegraph 
April 26, 1910 

VIRGINIAN RAILWAY GIVES AGRICULTURAL TRAIN 
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Will Traverse Line and Be Institute on Wheels for Farmer's Benefit 
    The Virginian Railway Company has tendered a train to the state agricultural department for institute purposes, which had been accepted.  The experiment station at Blacksburg will have charge of the demonstration work.  The trip will be through the southside Virginia and will start the first part of May and last a week. 
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