Coal shifters on Pocahontas District

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Thanks for your help, Ed, on the switchers out of Wilcoe and your spelling correction.  Since I don't have your e-mail address, I believe Ken Miller has been sending you my drafts on the Columbus, Kenova and CV Districts, and I thank you for any revisions you have made on them.  Right now I am working on the Pokey District and having a difficult time with the mine shifters.  My previous work of explaining the workings of the Clinchfield for another magazine has been child's play compared to figuring out the various movements on the Pokey (Over 40 trains at a time on one district as opposed to perhaps as many as 22 trains at a time on two "districts" on the CRR back in the early 80s) .

Glenn

> On October 29, 2018 at 7:10 AM NW Mailing List <nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org> wrote:
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>     There were probably five shifters on the Tug Fork Branch out of Wilcoe.  When I got there in 1962 the First Tug Fork Mine Run (4:30AM) went up the Sand Lick Branch to Filbert (USSteel mine #9).  The Second (6:30AM) went to Munson up the South ForkBranch (US#4, I recall).  The Third (7:30AM) went to Jenkinjones, the end of the Main Line of the Tug Fork Branch (no US mines).  The Fourth was an afternoon job that worked down to the main line and served mines west of Welch.  The Fifth was the night job (7:39PM) that went to Munson.  All these jobs except the Third worked USSteel’s cleaning plant at Gary.  These five jobs used just three sets of power, two units apiece.
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>     BTW – Raitt has two “t”s.
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>     Ed King
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>     From: NW Mailing List
>     Sent: Sunday, October 28, 2018 7:56 PM
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>     Subject: Coal shifters on Pocahontas District
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>     For the time period around 1955, Louis Newton lists these coal shifters for which I can find no further info:
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>          Out of Wilcoe (Welch)    on main line, one shifter east, one shifter west
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>          Out of Auville (Yaeger)   on main line, one shifter east, one shifter west
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>          Out of Williamson           five shifters, one on Buchanan Branch to Rait, the others on main line and branches as far east as Gilbert
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>           Out of Weller                 four shifters east on Buchanan Branch and Dismal Creek Branch
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>                                                 one shifter on Levisa Branch
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>                                                 one shifter to top of hill at Rait to serve mines in that territory
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>     Can anyone tell me the names, calling times and limit for any of these?
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>     Were there also one or two turns to take coal loads out of Weller to top of hill at Rait?
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>     Thank you!
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>     Glenn Fisher
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