Rural Retreat Depot

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Frank,

I'd recommend that you read the article re: Rural Retreat in the Oct-Nov-Dec 2009 issue of The Arrow (Vol.25, #4).  It describes what Link was doing during the last weeks of December 1957 in detail.  The Arrow article was based on Link's notebooks, photograph and recording dates, and an interview with Doug Wohlford.  There are differences between the newspaper account and Link's records.  If you need a copy of the Arrow, I can get you one.

Dave Stephenson



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Mr. Wohlford was one of several folks interviewed for an upcoming documentary on the depot being produced by the Rural Retreat Depot Foundation.  Look for it around Christmas.

Frank Akers
Rural Retreat Depot Foundation
www.theruralretreatdepot.com




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Dear all

Millie Rothrock has sent a link to another story she wrote earlier in the summer about a Wythe engineer - Doug Wohlford is older now, his body bent, his mind straining to keep up. But he remembers that crisp Christmas Eve 
when he was young and strong and tending the fire that propelled The 
Pelican from Bristol to Roanoke.

Dominic
London

 
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From: "Rothrock, Millicent W." <mrothrock at wythenews.com>
To: Dominic Pinto <dominic.pinto at ieee.org> 
Sent: Monday, 30 September 2013, 15:03
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Dear Dominic:
 
Thank you for the 
information. Here is another railroad-related story I recently wrote. I 
thought you might enjoy it. If you are ever this way again, stop by and say hello!
 
http://www.tricities.com/swvatoday/news/wytheville/article_0ef7acac-cfb5-11e2-8592-0019bb30f31a.html
 
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I asked about the closure date for Rural Retreat and was pointed to the 
attached that does not give a date or a year. I've asked again. I do 
know that the Washington-Bristol service ran on N&W track until 
Amtrak day - when it removed entirely off as the N&W weren't interested.

I'd expect that the station was still being used but some others did get
 mothballed or even sold during the '60s. I remember when I was first in
 Wytheville in the summer of '73 (I worked for Pendleton Construction 
Corp. on I-77) staying with the Simmermans
 going with Charles Simmerman and son Mike to take some beasts to load 
at Wytheville's train station - no passenger service then of course - 
and vaguely recall a Southern States depot there also. I have some 
pictures from then but of course didn't take any
 snaps of this!

If I get a date confirmed for the Rural Retreat station closure I'll let you know.

I haven't been Stateside for 7 years and was last in town staying with 
Jamie and Dana Smith Christmas 2005 ..... I'm overdue a visit!
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