Pocahontas Coal Field Sign

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Matt,

Thank you for calling attention to the outstanding N&W photos.  He 
recorded some of the finest scenes of the N&W that I have ever seen.

Gordon Hamilton

On 1/30/2019 11:51 AM, NW Mailing List via NW-Mailing-List wrote:
> Marty, here’s the photo that Larry is referring to. It is one of many 
> beautiful photos in Bill Gordon’s collection, with steam locomotion 
> spanning the middle fifties to the very early sixties:
>
> https://www.flickr.com/photos/130647200@N05/35757713216/in/album-72157669851188905/
>
> Matt Goodman
> Columbus Ohio US
>
> On Jan 29, 2019, at 6:36 PM, NW Mailing List <nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org 
> <mailto:nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org>> wrote:
>
> Saw it in a photo on flicker just this week .
>
> Larry Evans
>
> "There's the sun, there's the moon, there's the air we breathe, and
> there's the Rolling Stones"  Keith Richards
>
> On Jan 29, 2019, at 1:30 PM, NW Mailing List <nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org 
> <mailto:nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org>> wrote:
>
>> Hey Marty
>>
>> I know that billboard was shown in either of the company films the 
>> 1944 "Modern Coal Burning Steam Locomotives” or the 1940 "Power 
>> Behind the Nation” in color. I’ve seen, somewhere, a drawing for that 
>> billboard as well.
>>
>> I seem to recall seeing it in a book as well, and thought it might be 
>> Jim Nichols color book, but did not see it there.
>>
>> Best
>> Ken Miller
>>
>>> On Jan 29, 2019, at 12:41 PM, NW Mailing List 
>>> <nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org <mailto:nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org>> wrote:
>>>
>>> I'm trying to find a picture I saw in a book.  It's of a sign, 
>>> probably just outside either Bluefield or Williamson, that says 
>>> "This way to the Pocahontas Coal Fields" or something like that. 
>>>  I'm 90% certain the picture is in color.  I also want to say it is 
>>> not in a book you would expect it to be; perhaps a generic mine book 
>>> rather than N&W.  If anyone knows the picture I am thinking of or 
>>> any other pictures of this sign, please let me know.
>>>
>>> Thank you,
>>> Marty Flick
>>>
>>>
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