A Great Locomotive Chase question

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Dave,

Thank you for sharing the account and photos of your 1957 Chase in the 
/Arrow/--more, please.

Any chance the photo on p.13 was taken at the Falls Mills (Va) depot? 
The grade here is also only about a quarter percent, but you are looking 
west toward Flat Top. A public grade crossing and Downtown would be 
directly behind you. You would be standing where earlier, boxcars of 
blasting powder were unloaded to be trucked to a nearby warehouse and 
there was a stockyard beyond the end of the platform.

Grant Carpenter

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Date: Wed, 9 Apr 2014

I have a question concerning Dave Vos' "*A Great Locomotive Chase*" article
in the April-May-June 2014 issue of the *Arrow* (which I enjoyed very
much). The caption on page 11 concerning engine 477 references delivering
cars to VMI in Lexington.  Since this is about the "Huckleberry" on the
Blacksburg branch of the N&W and switching cars in Christiansburg, how are
the cars going to get to Lexington which is about 80 miles northeast of
Christiansburg?  Last time I checked, Blacksburg is and always has been
home to VPI, the Virginia Polytechnic Institute, not VMI.  :)

Jerry Kay. Portsmouth, Virginia


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