Switch List branch operations questions?

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Thank You Jimmy.

One of the reasons for my inquiry and my research is that I have an O Scale model N&W 4-8-0 and plan to build a generic rural small town shelf layout to switch with it and I am interested in the customer base, cars and structures that would be appropriate.  (1930s to 1950s)   

I've seen many pictures of the Abingdon branch and have always wondered who the customers were.  I know very little about the blacksburg branch other than it was originally built to mine the anthracite coal from mines at Merrimac.

I am tempted to build a generic feedmill and a station with a team track but would rather know more about the customer base and build something feasibly N&W.

Thanks again for your input.

This email group has always been a wealth of information and I appreciate it very much.

Tom Lewis

 

 

 

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Tom,
     On the Shenandoah Div. the agent would give the conductor a message 
with a list of what cars needed to be placed or pulled from an industry 
along with the bills for the cars that were being pulled. The list would 
show the car numbers, where each was to be spotted or pulled from and if 
cars were loaded or empty. The conductor would make a switch list of 
what was in the inbound train, similar to the one shown, to give to the 
yardmaster at the inbound terminal.  The conductor also made a CR10 (Car 
Report) listing the car number, type of car, load/empty, contents, 
approx. tonnage, destination and time pulled or placed at each industry. 
This was also turned in to the yardmaster at the completion of duty.

Jimmy Lisle
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