NW-Mailing-List Digest, Vol 125, Issue 28

Tue Sep 22 15:48:50 EDT 2015

Jim,
The Virginian wood Cabs I was in were a battleship Grey .I never saw green
at least  not in the wood Cabs..Ken Tanner 

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Today's Topics:

   1. Re: Planing Mill Question (NW Mailing List)
   2. Re: Planing Mill Question (NW Mailing List)
   3. Re: Elmore Yard & P-D District Closing (NW Mailing List)
   4. The Pocahontas Image (NW Mailing List)
   5. Wooden caboose interiors (NW Mailing List)
   6. Re: Elmore Yard & P-D District Closing (NW Mailing List)

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Message: 1
Date: Mon, 21 Sep 2015 23:01:24 -0400
From: NW Mailing List <nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org>
To: NW Mailing List <nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org>
Subject: Re: Planing Mill Question
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Sawdust was used with icing operations for refrigerated box car service. 
Maybe the shavings went there?

Ron Davis

On 9/20/2015 8:28 AM, NW Mailing List wrote:
> Recently someone asked me about cars (of another road) which were 
> designated "Shaving(s) Cars" in the Equipment Register.
>
> This made me think about the Shaffers Crossing planing mill. The 
> planing mill had a large metal retaining tank, perhaps 60 feet in the 
> air, into which I think the wood shavings from the planing work may 
> have been blown. It was located on the south side of the planing mill, 
> adjacent to the Ice House.
>
> Does anyone know how disposition was made of the shavings? Were they 
> burned on-site for steam generation, sold, or disposed of as trash?
> Unfortunately, the planing mill was closed shortly before I hired, and 
> I never took time to explore it or ask questions.
>
> Photo attached, with red arrow pointing to this tank.  Notice that the 
> tender of Engine 2112 sports an antenna for what appears to be 
> inductive train phone equipment.
>
> -- abram burnett,
>            turnip baron
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> _Ice_House_8-31-1957_w_arrow.jpg
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Date: Tue, 22 Sep 2015 05:02:02 +0000 (UTC)
From: NW Mailing List <nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org>
To: NW Mailing List <nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org>
Subject: Re: Planing Mill Question
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Wouldn't that be a box containing the phone equipment?
Jim Nichols 

     On Monday, September 21, 2015 1:59 PM, NW Mailing List
<nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org> wrote:

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45 There is also some other cylindrical object / equipment on the tender
seen blocking the view of the doghouse in that photo.??What is that? 

Brent Greer 

Date: Sun, 20 Sep 2015 08:28:35 -0400
Subject: Planing Mill Question
To: nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org
From: nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org

Recently someone asked me about cars (of another road) which were designated
"Shaving(s) Cars" in the Equipment Register.

This made me think about the Shaffers Crossing planing mill. The planing
mill had a large metal retaining tank, perhaps 60 feet in the air, into
which I think the wood shavings from the planing work may have been blown.
It was located on the south side of the planing mill, adjacent to the Ice
House.

Does anyone know how disposition was made of the shavings? Were they burned
on-site for steam generation, sold, or disposed of as trash?? Unfortunately,
the planing mill was closed shortly before I hired, and I never took time to
explore it or ask questions.

Photo attached, with red arrow pointing to this tank.? Notice that the
tender of Engine 2112 sports an antenna for what appears to be inductive
train phone equipment.

-- abram burnett,
? ? ? ? ? ?turnip baron

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Date: Tue, 22 Sep 2015 05:08:09 +0000 (UTC)
From: NW Mailing List <nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org>
To: NW Mailing List <nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org>
Subject: Re: Elmore Yard & P-D District Closing
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I'm not sure the EPA Is the prime reason for the decline in coal use. The
increased availability of cheap natural gas is the reason many utilities
have stopped burning coal. And I'm not sure the decline in coal use is the
prime reason for downgrading the P-D district. Apparently NS figures it is
cheaper to route traffic to Wharncliffe than to maintain traffic on the P-D
district.
Jim Nichols?? 

     On Monday, September 21, 2015 1:29 PM, NW Mailing List
<nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org> wrote:

 Another success story from EPA overreach and the War on Coal.?
Ed Painter, Narrows, VA living in North Georgia

On Sep 19, 2015, at 2:40 PM, NW Mailing List <nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org>
wrote:

All -?I have not seen this mentioned on this group yet, so I'll pass along
what I've been told by multiple sources. Elmore Yard will be closing October
1 and the NS P-D District will no longer be utilized between Elmore and P-D
Junction. All traffic will be routed over the NS Guyandotte River Branch to
the Pokey main at Wharncliffe. That means nearly 50 miles of the old VGN
mainline will fall silent. Whether this is temporary or permanent, I do not
know. Time will tell but it doesn't sound good given the current climate of
the coal industry. Again, just passing along what I'm being told.?Jeff
Hawkins?www.railsinvirginia.com
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Date: Tue, 22 Sep 2015 09:32:40 -0400
From: NW Mailing List <nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org>
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Subject: The Pocahontas Image
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Hello,
I was searching railpictures.net and found this one photo of Class J 605
arriving in Roanoke from the west and in the caption it said it was leading
"The Tennessean". The first seven visible cars in the picture are all N&W
cars, 5 of which are head end cars. This leads me to believe it is the
"Pocahontas". Can I get some clarification on this please?
Very Respectfully,
Joseph Congemi

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  http://www.railpictures.net/viewphoto.php?id=388798
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Date: Tue, 22 Sep 2015 09:00:24 -0400
From: NW Mailing List <nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org>
To: NW Mailing List <nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org>, NW Modeling List
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Subject: Wooden caboose interiors
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What was used for the interior walls on wooden cabooses (CF in particular)?
Was is board and batten, bead board, the same as used for the exterior
sheathing or something else entirely?  How about the floors and ceilings?
Were they painted that light mint green color that was used for steam
locomotive cab interiors?
Jim Cochran
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Date: Tue, 22 Sep 2015 10:04:19 -0400
From: NW Mailing List <nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org>
To: NW Mailing List <nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org>
Subject: Re: Elmore Yard & P-D District Closing
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It has been proven this administration, thus the epa, hates anything
traditionally American. ?We have to preserve our legacies...thus our great
historical group. ?I can only hope the next generation cares about it half
as much as we do!
Christopher J. Bunsey

Sent from my Sprint Samsung Galaxy S? 6.-------- Original message
--------From: NW Mailing List <nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org> Date: 9/22/2015
1:08 AM  (GMT-05:00) To: NW Mailing List <nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org> Subject:
Re: Elmore Yard & P-D District Closing I'm not sure the EPA Is the prime
reason for the decline in coal use. The increased availability of cheap
natural gas is the reason many utilities have stopped burning coal. And I'm
not sure the decline in coal use is the prime reason for downgrading the P-D
district. Apparently NS figures it is cheaper to route traffic to
Wharncliffe than to maintain traffic on the P-D district.
Jim Nichols??  

     On Monday, September 21, 2015 1:29 PM, NW Mailing List
<nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org> wrote:

 Another success story from EPA overreach and the War on Coal.?
Ed Painter, Narrows, VA living in North Georgia

On Sep 19, 2015, at 2:40 PM, NW Mailing List <nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org>
wrote:
All -?I have not seen this mentioned on this group yet, so I'll pass along
what I've been told by multiple sources. Elmore Yard will be closing October
1 and the NS P-D District will no longer be utilized between Elmore and P-D
Junction. All traffic will be routed over the NS Guyandotte River Branch to
the Pokey main at Wharncliffe. That means nearly 50 miles of the old VGN
mainline will fall silent. Whether this is temporary or permanent, I do not
know. Time will tell but it doesn't sound good given the current climate of
the coal industry. Again, just passing along what I'm being told.?Jeff
Hawkins?www.railsinvirginia.com
www.railfirephotography.com________________________________________
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