Wasena Bridge over the VGN and the 10th street bridge over the N&W

Mon Sep 14 21:57:36 EDT 2020

Jim,

You are right. The RR had so many customers along Shenandoah Ave and on the south side of the yard as well. So much manufacturing as well as wholesale and retail businesses. Everything was so much more local back then.

Hope that  '10th St. soda pop'  tasted good. Thanks for the memories.

John Garner

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Subject: Re: Wasena Bridge over the VGN and the 10th street bridge over the N&W

The Wasena bridge is scheduled to be replaced.  A little story on that bridge.

An older lady that worked in my office at the, GOB, lived in the Wasena area when she was a young girl.  She was playing with her friends one day and they challenged her to walk across the bridge on top of that narrow ledge.  She made it from one side to the other with out falling off the ledge.

Ken Tanner sure hope you never tried that.  Every time I cross that bridge I think about that dumb thing kids do.

John G. - That was not that bad of an area in my time.  I think I even stopped at the store on the north side to get a soft drink. Your photo of the C-3 was great.  How about all the railroad customers in that area.  Lindsey Robertson flour mill, Hodges Lumber and two of the 3 or 4 coal companies.  Hatcher Coal and Cummings Coal. In addition you can see the dust collector for Wells Furniture Co on the North side of Shenandoah Ave.  The south side of the tracks had a number of customers also. There was a fire that destroyed the flour mill not long after your photo.  The only thing left at last check was a silo and the new office building at the flour mill.

Jim Blackstock

On 9/8/2020 9:00 AM, NW Mailing List wrote:
> Ken, I grew up in Roanoke. That was a very long and narrow bridge. Was there a sidewalk on it to ride your bike?  If anyone gave you trouble there's really no where to go. Did you feel safe?
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> I know as I explored RR things on my bike, 'situational awareness' was always necessary.
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> Just curious,   John Garner
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> As a kid growing up in Roanoke . I would ride my bike from Wasena over to the Tenth Street bridge which overlooked the N&W yard . All I remember is that the caboose tops at that time, anyway, were black or a dark color of some kind, not red. Hope that helps some.
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>> That question leads me to ask a question; were N&W caboose roofs painted red, like the caboose bodies, or were they painted dark gray or black? Hard to tell, from the many photos I've looked at that showed any part of the roof, none of which show a clearly defined red.
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>> The cover of the latest Arrow really caught my attention tonight. It is a color photo of the tail end of a coal train moving away from the camera.
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>> I noticed the side and back of the cupola of the caboose is very grimy, presumably from coal dust blowing from the train. However, the back platform wall is very bright (relatively, that is).
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>> Is that cleanliness because of the protection of the roof, or because the crew keep that way?
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>> In the steam era caboose roofs were painted brown or with Dednox or Mortex (alphalt compounds).But only the roof tops. Facia was red like the body. In time, of course, the brown tended to weather to a more blackish or dark gray appearance. But in the later red schemes, the roof was red like the body.
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>> That question leads me to ask a question; were N&W caboose roofs painted red, like the caboose bodies, or were they painted dark gray or black? Hard to tell, from the many photos I've looked at that showed any part of the roof, none of which show a clearly defined red.
>> Greg Harrod
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>> The cover of the latest Arrow really caught my attention tonight. It is a color photo of the tail end of a coal train moving away from the camera.
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>> I noticed the side and back of the cupola of the caboose is very grimy, presumably from coal dust blowing from the train. However, the back platform wall is very bright (relatively, that is).
>>
>> Is that cleanliness because of the protection of the roof, or because the crew keep that way?
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>> Whatever the cause, it?s a good weathering reference for modelers.
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>> The recently posted photos reminded me of the new of the pedestrian bridge in Abingdon being hit by a vehicle and some or all of it being removed.  Has anything been done to repair or replace it since then?
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