Engine Coal Question

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Abram,

I don't have the answer to your total question about where the RR got its coal for locomotive fuel before 1883.  Before the connection of the SV with the N&W RR at Roanoke in 1882, the railroad had to get it from somewhere along its origninal route in southwestern Virginia where coal was being produced.

The AM&O began the conversion from wood to coal on its engines in 1876.  This involved mostly the old V&T portion of the line initially.  The 1884 N&W RR Annual Report states that the conversion from wood to coal was completed in that year for the entire railroad.

Bud Jeffries
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  Where did the N&W get its engine coal before the Pocohontas Mine was opened in 1883?  Was it fetched down the Shenandoah Valley RR from Pennsylvania?



  And... wouldn't it be fascinating to discover a first person account of the conversion from wood to coal as engine fuel, complete with a listing of "wood stations" along the line ? !!!



  -- abram burnett
   



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