Mystery Picture

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On Fri, Dec 28, 2012 at 6:51 AM, Rick wrote:


> I have the Vanishing Vistas card with this photo.  The location is given

> as Troutville and the engine is 2123.  The solid train of tank cars is to

> transport oil by rail during World War II because German submarines had

> disrupted the transport of oil along the Atlantic seaboard.  The peak year

> for the oil trains was 1943.  So the correct orientation of the photo is

> with the passing siding in the foreground, on the engineer's side of the

> locomotive.  The Vanishing Vistas image (copyright 1972) was made from

> large size transparencies taken by N&W's company photographers.  There may

> be a b&w version of this scene in the Virginia Tech image collection.

>


There is an image in the VT imagebase, found by searching on "oil train" to
get results. Per the caption, this is "501910 Oil train near Troutville
9-21-43" and can be found at
http://imagebase.lib.vt.edu/view_record.php?URN=ns3686

Bruce in Blacksburg
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