Operations along the Valley Line between Stuarts Draft and Hagerstown from 1979 and 1981

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Aside from I think it's four manifests HR-95, RH-88, RH-52 and HR-55(?) what other traffic was running. Was coal still running to Conrail or Chessie? What if any locals were there?


In the period around 1981, N&W was receiving unit coal trains at Glasgow from Chessie.  This coal
originated from a mine near Man, WV and was billed to CP&L at Hyco and Mayo.
They're gone now because NS built a conveyor belt a little over 5 mi. long from the mine to the
former VGN at Kopperston.  By recollection, the Kopperston route saved about 300 one-way miles.

When the unit trains were still in existence, the Superintendent, Hank  Kinzell,  came up with
a time-saving idea -- build a connection in Roanoke that would run from the overhead bridge at 
Orange Avenue past the East End Shops to the  N&W main line to Norfolk near Furnace Crossing.
This would have saved the train from going in to Shaffers Crossing and having to swap power from
the west end to the east end. It never came about, but you may want to incorporate that into your
layout.                                                              Harry Bundy




 
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