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Southern didn’t join Amtrak so anything they were operating on 4/30/71 still operated on 5/1/71 and beyond. But the list of trains operating on 4/30/71 in the 1972 Kalmbach book Jounrey to Amtrak, 17/18 was only a Washington-Bristol train by then. The N&W portion was discontinued but Southern continued to operate it Washington-Lynchburg.

Are you saying there was a No. 18 on 5/1/71? 4/30/71 should have been the last day but maybe they ran it to get the equipment back. Looking at the schedule, I guess they had to - 17 of 4/30 would have run all the way to Bristol so there would have been no equipment in Lynchburg to run Southern’s 18 on 5/1.

Assuming the schedule I have from 10/70 was still true on 4/30/71, 18 left Bristol at 7:00am, Roanoke at 12:20pm, and Lynchburg at 1:30pm.

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Larry Stone
lstone19 at stonejongleux.com





> On Aug 7, 2019, at 4:25 PM, NW Mailing List via NW-Mailing-List <nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org> wrote:
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> John:
> No. 18 originated at Bristol that day.  A Southern Rwy. public timetable
> dated November 20, 1970 indicates Southern no longer provided a
> passenger train connection at Bristol.  Annulment of passenger service
> between Knoxville and Bristol may  may have occurred before that date.
> For an assignment on the Radford Division in October, I rode #17 to
> Bristol one Sunday night.  Most passengers got off the train at Christians-
> burg for VPI, some at Radford, and one or two at Abingdon.  No. 17 arrived
> Bristol with two revenue passengers               Harry Bundy
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