not quite so light reading

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Jim,

I want to thank you for the N&W and VGN items that you gleaned from 
/Railway Review 1883-1893/ (Mailing List 5/24/20), and /The railway and 
Engineering Review 1897-1909/. I know that it must have taken a lot of 
work on your part to search and copy the many items from these two 
publications.

I was interested in these items, so I archived them until I could give 
them the attention they deserved (which I have now done). One item in 
the Sep. 26, 1908, issue of the Engineering Review about a new N&W 
coaling station at Concord, VA, particularly intrigued me.  It stated:

"Official reports show that the average time required to coal the heavy 
through-service passenger engines is only 35 seconds, counting from the 
instant the train comes to a standstill until it moves away."

WOW!  Unless that is a misprint, that is fast!

Gordon Hamilton

On 5/25/2020 9:51 AM, NW Mailing List wrote:
> All,
> The attached PDF has N&W news from The Railway and Engineering Review 
> 1897-1909 with a bit that might be of interest to VGN folk.
> Jim Cochran
>
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