N&W Class TE-1 2300

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Gene A,

Thanks for your kind words about RAILS REMEMBERED, Volume 4, regarding "Jawn 
Henry."  I regret that the account of it couldn't have had a happier ending.

Louis Newton
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>   1. N&W Class T-1 2300 (NW Mailing List)

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>   3. N&W in 1910--Portsmouth depot (NW Mailing List)

>   4. Archives session this week ? (NW Mailing List)

>   5. Re: N&W coal Movement in 1910 (NW Mailing List)

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> A few months ago I asked some questions about the "Jawn Henry" turbine 

> engine # 2300.  It was recommended that I read the "Rails Remembered" 

> volume 4 by Mr. Louis Newton. I am so glad that I followed that advice.

> Mr. Newton, I felt as though I was standing, looking over your shoulder 

> while you so meticulously followed this project from drawing stage, 

> through erection, and through the experimental operation. Having been a 

> problem solving mechanical engineer myself, I can so appreciate you having 

> kept a journal. Even more striking is the sad story of the death of an era 

> of time that some of us will never forget. Example to quote the author 

> from page 867, " I have often thought that the instellation of air horns 

> was the symbolic beginning of the end for steam power on the Norfolk and 

> Western".

> Mr. Newton, thank you sir for preserving such a time.

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> Gene A.

> Gloucester, Va.

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> That coal From Fordson coal Co. at Twin Branch, WVA, was that a Ford Motor

> operation?

>          K.  Borg

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> Bluefield Daily Telegraph

> August 31, 1910

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> TO ENLARGE DEPOT

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> Portsmouth People Hear Good News From Norfolk and Western

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>    From an unquestioned source it is learned that the Norfolk and Western 

> Railway Company is planning to make extensive additions and improvements 

> to the passenger station at Portsmouth early in the coming year, says the 

> Times of that city.

>    The plan is to enlarge the depot and add one and possible two more 

> stories to the depot.  Then the intention is to move the offices of Supt. 

> J. T. Carey, and the dispatchers' offices will be moved from the terminals 

> to the new depot, occupying the upper stories.  The present quarters at 

> the terminals will be used by the yard and shop officials.

>    This is a move that will meet with hearty approval in all quarters and 

> the company is to be congratulated on deciding to make the improvements.

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> Just checking about the scheduled session for this week and how far

> away from Roanoke up I-81 is the snow?

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> Thanks.

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> Yes.  Ford Motor Company owned a number of mines in WV and KY under the 

> Fordson name.  Henry Ford's son (Ford Son), Edsel Ford was company 

> president.

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> Fordson bought the near 5,538 acre property from JBB (DEXCAR) Coal in 1923

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> When the UMW attempted to unionize the mines at Twin Branch in 1933, the 

> mines were shut down, the houses were boarded up, and the property was 

> essentially closed.  Ford Motor Company sold the property to Darr 

> Smokeless in 1944 and in 1948, Darr Smokeless leased the property to Jones 

> & Laughlin Steel.  J&L eventually acquired the property and operated it 

> until 1957.

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> My new book, "Billion Dollar Coalfield", which will be available through 

> the NWHS Commissary this summer (if I ever finish the last two chapters), 

> will cover all of the coal mines along the N&W in McDowell County, WV.

>

> Alex Schust

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>  That coal From Fordson coal Co. at Twin Branch, WVA, was that a Ford 

> Motor operation?

>            K. Borg

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