Coal at Atkins on the Bristol Line ?

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Abe

You sure do ask a lot of questions in one post.?? I will not even attempt 
to list water stations. First time I heard of Coal at Atkins or Lurich. 
A lot of water at Lurich.

Other Coal Stations - Elliston retired in 1927, Vicker on the journey to 
Bristol, Dry Branch, Ripplemead, Pearisburg.

Jim Blackstock

On 9/28/2019 11:21 AM, NW Mailing List wrote:
>
> One thing I have always paid attention to is the coal and water 
> situation on any operating division or engine district.
>
>
> T.T. No. 1 of 12-3-1905, shows water at east Radford, New River, 
> Pulaski, Clark, Wytheville, Crockett, Atkins, Marion, Glade Spring, 
> Abingdon and Bristol.
>
>
> The same T.T. shows coal at East Radford, Pulaski, Glade Spring and 
> Bristol, all of which are to be expected.
>
>
> But it also shows coal at Atkins, which had never seen before.
>
>
> Does anyone know the nature of the Atkins coaling facility??? My guess 
> is that it may have been one of those old "shovel platforms" on a side 
> track, at approximate tender height, where the tender was drawn up 
> beside the platform and everyone shoveled furiously to get some 
> emergency coal in the tender.
>
>
> (Someone will wonder about coal and water on the River side, so here 
> it is:?? Water at West Roanoke, Salem, Elliston, between Montgomery and 
> Houchins, Walton, Dry Branch, between Allen and Pembroke, Curve, 
> Lurich, between Glen Lyn and Wills, Blake and Bluefield.?? Coal at West 
> Roanoke, Walton, Lurich and Bluefield.?? It would be REALLY interesting 
> to see how coal and water were handled ten years earlier, in, say, 
> 1891, before the big Class G and Class W engines hit the property.)
>
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