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Thank you Ken. I am indeed aware of the book and own a copy. As a matter of
fact, Dad, Grandpa, and my Aunt Sarah Margaret are all pictured in the book
and Dad contributed to it.

Best,
Tom Fulton

On Wed, Nov 13, 2019, 8:36 PM NW Mailing List <nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org>
wrote:

> Hello Tom
>
> Welcome to the Society and mailing list.
>
> I’m sure Alex Schust will answer your question, but I wanted to make you
> aware of the Coalwood book in the Commissary, in case you did not have it
> already. It can be found in the books section of the Commissary with SKU#
> *138.111.*
>
> *A note for everyone, please be sure to sign your posts with your full
> name, otherwise the moderators might start rejecting them! :)*
>
> *Best*
> *Ken Miller*
>
>
>
> On Nov 13, 2019, at 11:16 AM, NW Mailing List <nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org>
> wrote:
>
> Hello folks,
>
> I'm new to the list and the N&W Historical Society. I'm originally from
> Atlanta and live in Asheville now. But my father grew up in Coalwood, WV
> and Grandpa was the office manager for the Carter/Olga Coal company there.
> They tried to promote Grandpa to something like Executive Assistant to the
> General Manager, but Grandpa said that he didn't much like being considered
> anyone's assistant. :-)
>
> Dad graduated Big Creek High School in War in 1947 so has lots of memories
> of some of the prime time for coal operations there. N&W used to pull about
> 100 empties into Coalwood each morning, spend time rearranging the full
> cars from the previous day, then haul those back down in the afternoon.
> There was a siding just after the spur came back into the main line to
> Iaeger and they dropped all of the eastbound cars there instead of hauling
> them into the yard at Iaeger.
>
> My wife and I are just getting in modeling and I have also joined the
> modeling group. Long term I'm hoping to create a layout that models roughly
> the area from Bluefield up to Iaeger or perhaps even to Williamson in the
> 1950s.
>
> One question I have is which locomotives were used to run the daily runs
> up to the mines. I think for Coalwood it was a Class E2A and they were run
> as a double header. But this is based on Dad's now 91 year old memory.
>
> Thanks!
> Tom
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