NW-Mailing-List Digest, Vol 117, Issue 25

Fri Jan 30 11:54:51 EST 2015

Does this mean that the VA Division superintendents will stay in Roanoke? I
am asking for a friend.

It will be interesting if by 2020 Roanoke is an intermodal facility.
Considering the proximity to 81 it makes sense but still sad to see the
city's rail heritage  evolve in this direction.

Best,

Gerard

Gerard J. Fitzgerald
Charlottesville, Virginia

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>    1. "Takin' Twenty" with the Virginian Brethren by Skip Salmon
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>    2. Re: Maher & Needles (NW Mailing List)
>    3. Re: Maher & Needles (NW Mailing List)
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> Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2015 08:34:40 -0500
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> Subject: "Takin' Twenty" with the Virginian Brethren by Skip Salmon
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> Last night I had the pleasure of "Takin' Twenty" with six of the Brethren
> and Friends of the Virginian Railway.  Most of the discussion was about the
> headlines in Tuesday's Roanoke paper: "Norfolk Southern pulls 500 local
> jobs; Employees to Norfolk and Atlanta'; NS building to be sold". Former
> Virginian Railway Engineer Raymond East said "NS has pulled the pin on
> Roanoke".  He also blamed the Obama administration's war on coal for the
> demise.  Former VGN Operator Landon Gregory quoted local lawmakers in
> Richmond "tying coal's struggles to the decision by NS to close the Roanoke
> headquarters".  This removes Roanoke, built by N&W and VGN,  as a major
> rail center and creates a large hole in the hearts of former employees and
> rail fans in the area.  Ronnie Victory, son of Cornbread Victory recently
> retired from NS and worked at the 23 year old 11-story NS building at 11
> Franklin Road in Roanoke.  He says that "most of the jobs being moved to
> Atlanta and Norfolk are near the $100,000 salary range. He also mentioned
> that many who work there now have spouses who also work in Roanoke.  As a
> side line to this, the local CBS TV station had a dateline of the major
> rail events in Roanoke's history starting in 1881 when N&W was born as the
> Norfolk and Western Railroad, stated that the N&W merged with the Virginian
> Railway in 1952...  NS reported that intermodal brought in more revenue in
> 2014 than coal:  Intermodal $649,000,000 versus coal with $543,000,000.
> What's next???
>
>
> The ebay report this time has several great bargains:  "Virginian Railway
> in Color" for $25; 1958 VGN RWY Annual Report for $16.50 and two H. Reid
> first edition books for $19.99 and $20.
>
>
> The Jewel from the Past is from May 29, 2008:  "We were discussing the fact
> that many of the Brethren are either already 80 or will soon be 80.
> Someone asked Cornbread what was his birthdate?  He answered 'August 16th'.
> He was then asked 'What year?"  He answered 'Every one so far!'"
>
>
> For Show and Tell I took the March "Trains" Magizine.  Page 6 has "Getting
> the mail back on track" with "Almost two centuries after the federal
> government first gave stagecoach contractors a $400 annual allowance to
> move mail on trains, the U. S. Postal Service's internal watchdog is urging
> kt to ship more mail by rail".  Page 25 has "This train delivers safety"
> and CSX new slogan "Safety is a way of life".  Will NS have a "safety
> train" soon? Page 66 "Ask Trains" question and answer page has two
> interesting items.  One concerns an item in last week's report about poling
> cars.  It shows one in operation and states that the ICC "did not prohibit
> poling" and that the practice was used until it was discontinued in the
> 1960s.  The second question is about a Montana Rail Link local with a GP-35
> "running backwards" (long hood forward) with an answer that yes, diesels
> have the same power running forward or backward.  Did anyone tell N&W and
> SOU that they were running ALL of their diesel backwards?
>
>
> Then there's this:  Last week we talked about several of the Brethren
> reaching the golden anniversary of marriage.  Someone sent me this:  A
> fellow was bragging that he and his wife had been married for 49 years and
> was asked what he was going to do to celebrate the 50th?  "I took her to
> China for our 25th so I think I'll go get her for our 50th".
>
>
> Time to pull the pin on this one!
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>
> Departing Now from V248,
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>
> Skip Salmon
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> DLI
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> Subject: Re: Maher & Needles
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> I have two questions.
>
> (1) How did they get Mr. Needled from a 4PM funeral service in Roanoke to
> an 11AM burial in Baltimore? That's a rather tight schedule to do by train
> (and most caskets traveled by rail in those days.) Did he move by "motor
> transport"?
>
> (2) Where was Mr. Maher's home, 1134 Commerce St NW, Roanoke, located?
> Commerce St is now called "2nd Street" (by some, at least, but not by us
> purists.) A check of Mapquest shows that the northern portion of old
> Commerce St may now be known as "Gainsboro Road" and places this address
> just south of Orange Avenue. BingMaps, however, places the address near the
> corner of Madison Avenue. The two locations are better than 500 feet apart.
> So... Where was his home located, and what happened to it?
>
> -- abram burnett,
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> Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2015 17:01:50 -0500
> From: NW Mailing List <nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org>
> To: NW Mailing List <nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org>
> Subject: Re: Maher & Needles
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> On Thu, Jan 29, 2015 at 11:18 AM,
> ?Abram
>  wrote:
>
> I have two questions.
> >
> > (1) How did they get Mr. Needled from a 4PM funeral service in Roanoke to
> > an 11AM burial in Baltimore? That's a rather tight schedule to do by
> > train (and most caskets traveled by rail in those days.) Did he move by
> > "motor transport"?
> >
>
> ?From a section of the follow-up article on Wednesday, October 28, 1936 in
> the Roanoke Times:
>
> "Last night the body was placed on Mr. Needles' private car attached to a
> special train and taken to Baltimore, Md., where he was born in 1867. Today
> after final commitment services he will be laid to rest in Greenmount
> cemetery."
>
> So he got special treatment right up to the end.
>
> (2) Where was Mr. Maher's home, 1134 Commerce St NW, Roanoke, located?
> > Commerce St is now called "2nd Street" (by some, at least, but not by us
> > purists.) A check of Mapquest shows that the northern portion of old
> > Commerce St may now be known as "Gainsboro Road" and places this address
> > just south of Orange Avenue. BingMaps, however, places the address near
> the
> > corner of Madison Avenue. The two locations are better than 500 feet
> apart.
> > So... Where was his home located, and what happened to it?
> >
>
> ?Someone more familiar with historic Roanoke will have to locate that
> address.
>
> Bruce in Blacksburg
> ?
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