Steam era coal routing

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Grant

This is all very useful.  I will use the information in developing operations for my model railroad. 

Great. Thanks 

Tom Lewis

On Aug 29, 2013, at 5:02 PM, NW Mailing List <nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org> wrote:


> Tom,

> 

> Other colors were used later, but in addition to green and white, orange

> was for short (distance) loads.  US Steel had their own tag scheme and

> no-tags didn't move with at least one exception.  Keystone no-tags were

> moved to Eckman or Kimball Yard to avoid the tipple from becoming blocked

> off due to high output and short outlet tracks.

> 

> Grant Carpenter

> 

>> Date: Tue, 27 Aug 2013

>> 

>> For the person who asked about this subject earlier, according to the

> book "The Norfolk & Western Railway: Williamson Terminal- 1953" by Vern

> French, westbound coal (to Portsmouth, Ohio, etc.)was marked with a green

> tag and eastbound coal (to Bluefield, etc.)was marked with a white tag.

>> Lois J.Ponton

>> N&W steam historia

> 

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