Station drawings

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To further Alex's statement, which are good, I've snipped out most of his comments.
On Nov 18, 2014, at 9:16 AM, NW Mailing List wrote:

> <<snip>>In all cases the structures were to be built according to plans and dimensions provided by N&W. <<snip>.This would lead us to believe that drawings existed at one time.
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This is indeed the case. I acquired copies of these drawings about 40 years ago. Drawing M-382, Size and Capacities of Stations, dated August 8, 1916 is a single sheet comparison of station sizes, comparing various square foot size fo Waiting Rooms, Baggage Rooms, Express Rooms, compared to population from 1910. This is not an exhaustive list, by any means. But lists 23 locations, and the plan number to which they were built. Examples would be Waverly, Va, plan 9556 Rev, Martinsville, Y7427, Shawsville 9473, Wytheville Y-2263. Farmville Y-3569, etc. 

Another drawing, M-390, Station Improvements for 1917, dated September 27, 1916, listing 17 different stations, a few plans are listed, but a column of "type" also tells a bit of a story, Marion (freight) is the Pulaski type, Narrows (pass and freight) is the Shawsville type, Dennis (pass and freight) is 2nd class type, measuring 24x76x16, plan L-145, as is Starkey and Price. The list goes on. 

Both of the drawings M-382 and M-390 are likely to be part of the upcoming book on N&W stations by myself and Tim Hensley.

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> Structural data can be obtained from the ICC Valuation Note Books. While they are not indexed, we generally know where to go to find pertinent information.

The ICC valuation files at the National Archives, while voluminous and detailed, seem to have very, very few drawings, some sketches, but are mostly raw data which takes a huge amount of time to go through.
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> Fortunately, when the N&W was originally built there were no communities and so therefore there was no required permitting process. However, we don’t know what was required when a station was rebuilt.
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I suspect that most communities in the era really had minimal requirements and a very limited staff to enforce construction, even up into the 1930s, I'd suspect.

Ken Miller

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