Electrification Roanoke

Mon Apr 4 16:00:10 EDT 2016

Electrification ended at the Walnut Street Bridge ...Ken Tanner

Today's Topics:

   1. Re: Turntables (NW Mailing List) (NW Mailing List)
   2. Virginian Railway Electrification/Riding the N&W Steam Clips
      (NW Mailing List)

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Message: 1
Date: Sun, 3 Apr 2016 08:26:10 -0500
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Subject: Re: Turntables (NW Mailing List)
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  American Bridge Company sold it's Turntables in units of ten, my model is
14 feet long which makes it 105 feet for the real thing.

The Lambert's Point, American Bridge Company, Turntable is 100 feet long, my
model should have been 160 inches long, but that extra 8 inches does not
seem to change the appearance.

14 feet was used because it was the length of some of the materials I had
available, and I did not want to waste it.

Information on Railroad Turntables is scarce, I visited several libraries in
my research, even the NMRA, they had little on the construction of them.

American Bridge Co. has only information on their bridges and buildings of
today on their web site, turntable technology has been gone for a long time
from the company.

It's been +103 years since they fabricated and erected the Lambert's Point
Turntable.

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Ron

Very nice, enjoyed the video.
How long is the turntable?
My 1.6in scale 4-8-2 requires a 13 foot bridge.
My only N&W motive power is a 1 in scale live steam Class A 2-6-6-4 that is
10 feet plus and inch or two.

Jim Stapleton

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Message: 2
Date: Sat, 2 Apr 2016 14:23:22 -0400
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Subject: Virginian Railway Electrification/Riding the N&W Steam Clips
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Does anyone know how far east the the Virginian line was electrified?  I'm
doing some research for a painting and want to show a scene showing a
Virginian EL-2B at the base of Mill Mountain in Roanoke along with the
station there.  But I need to know if such a scene really would have existed
in the 1950's.  Did the Virginian yard there have overhead wires?
I know at some point they were removed.

The painting is going to be my submission this year for the American Society
of Railway Artists, and I have to have it believable so it won't get too
much criticism!

BTW, I've enjoyed viewing the clips from "Riding the N & W". I'm anxious to
purchase a copy.

Tracy Foutz
Cairo, GA (formerly of Roanoke and will be back again)
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