Military bases served

Wed Oct 21 20:30:33 EDT 2015

RF&P into Eustis?  714th TBROS&DE. HHC CO 1969-1970.Ed Svitil LTC CE  (Ret)

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Date: 21/10/2015  4:04 PM  (GMT-05:00)
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Subject: Re: Military bases served

How about Camp/Fort Pickett too.

Ed Painter living in North Georgia from Narrows, VA

> On Oct 21, 2015, at 1:33 PM, NW Mailing List via NW-Mailing-List <nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org> wrote:
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> Skip:
> Until the 1959 merger with the VGN, I suspect N&W did not directly
> serve Norfolk-NOB.  But there was one occasion when N&W, and
> others stepped up to serve the Navy Base.  Home port for 33 ships
> had been moved from Norfolk to the West Coast.  On January 14, 1955,
> N&W operated a second section of No. 3 to transfer the wives and
> children of the Navy men to Long Beach and San Diego.  The train
> consisted of 17 cars (an N&W baggage car, N&W 539, 2 diners,
> 11 Pullmans, and two other cars) hauled by engine 612. Harry Bundy
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