Hopper Train north

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Thanks Jeff and Joe. Do you know why coal is not being shipped south on the Valley Line?

On Oct 1, 2014, at 7:00 AM, "NW Mailing List" <nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org> wrote:

> 
> Raymond Smoot asked:
>> Last Monday I saw a hopper train heading north out of Roanoke on the
>> Shenandoah Division. Is this typical?  Where was it going?  Thanks.
> 
> Ray,
> 
> It has become typical with the last year. Several of the North Carolina
> utilites have been sourcing some of their coal from the Pennslyvania
> coal fields on the old Monongahela Railway south of Pittsburg.  The loads
> are routed west through Ohio to Bucyrus where they come back south/east
> on the N&W via Columbus, Portsmouth and the Pocahontas Division.  The 
> empties often go north from Roanoke to Harrisburg and then west from there.
> 
> Joe Shaw
> Christiansburg, VA
> http://www.krunk.org/
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