NW-Mailing-List Digest, Vol 197, Issue 56

Thu Mar 25 22:37:39 EDT 2021

The piers in the New River are from
The Virginian. I had the privilege of riding across that bridge many times on trains three and four!! 

Ken Tanner 
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>   1. Re: Glen Lyn (NW Mailing List)
>   2. Re: Glen Lyn (NW Mailing List)
>   3. Re: Is this the Bristol VA roundhouse? (NW Mailing List)
>   4. Re: Is this the Bristol VA roundhouse? (NW Mailing List)
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> Date: Thu, 25 Mar 2021 07:21:50 -0400
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> That is correct.
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> Ken Miller
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>> On Mar 25, 2021, at 1:20 AM, NW Mailing List <nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org> wrote:
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>> Are the bridge piers in the New River from the Virginian bridge?
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> Yes the piers from Virginian?s bridge across the New River are still in
> place.
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> EdPainter #70, who lived n Glen Lyn in the 1950?s
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>> On Thu, Mar 25, 2021 at 11:45 AM NW Mailing List <nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org>
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>> Are the bridge piers in the New River from the Virginian bridge?
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> Subject: Re: Is this the Bristol VA roundhouse?
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> Richard Prince, in *Norfolk & Western Railway: Pocahontas Coal
> Carrier,* published
> 1980, describes various roundhouses at what he calls "outlying points" of
> the railroad.  For Bristol he states, on page 94:
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> "BRISTOL, VA at the Tennessee state line was provided by the N&W RR with an
> 8-stall brick roundhouse, complete with a 60-ft turntable. This was later
> replaced by an 85-ft turntable. In 1919 an 115-ft turntable and the first
> section of a new roundhouse constructed. This was completed in 1926 to
> contain a total of 16 stalls, and the old roundhouse torn down."
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> There is no photo of either Bristol roundhouse in Prince's book.
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> Jim Brewer
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> On Thu, Mar 25, 2021 at 1:45 PM NW Mailing List <nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org>
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>> Jim Nichols responded that in his opinion, yes.
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>> I totally agree with Reverend Nichols.
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>> Ken Miller
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>> On Mar 24, 2021, at 11:25 AM, NW Mailing List <nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org>
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>> I posted this question to the Mailing list a couple days but didn?t see a
>> reply so am trying again.
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>> Is this the Bristol VA roundhouse?
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>> https://www.ebay.com/itm/Duplicate-Slide-N-W-Norfolk-Western-4-8-4-605-On-Turntable/313462920363?hash=item48fbd894ab:g:Xy8AAOSwCZZgVrbh
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>> Jim King
>> http://smokymountainmodelworks.com/
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> Here is a view of the Bristol Roundhouse. Compare the two views, the ebay slide at top, and the bottom view from our archives.
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> The type of ventilators on the roof seem to match. And same number of them. Eight stalls.
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> Its Bristol.
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> Ken Miller
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>> On Mar 24, 2021, at 5:11 PM, NW Mailing List <nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org> wrote:
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>> OK, I will take a shot at it. That is I will shoot a pix of what remains and see it any elements match up.
>> 
>> Mike Pierry, Jr.
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>> On Wed, Mar 24, 2021 at 4:10 PM NW Mailing List <nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org <mailto:nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org>> wrote:
>> I posted this question to the Mailing list a couple days but didn?t see a reply so am trying again.
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>> Is this the Bristol VA roundhouse?
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>> https://www.ebay.com/itm/Duplicate-Slide-N-W-Norfolk-Western-4-8-4-605-On-Turntable/313462920363?hash=item48fbd894ab:g:Xy8AAOSwCZZgVrbh <https://www.ebay.com/itm/Duplicate-Slide-N-W-Norfolk-Western-4-8-4-605-On-Turntable/313462920363?hash=item48fbd894ab:g:Xy8AAOSwCZZgVrbh>
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>> Jim King
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>> http://smokymountainmodelworks.com/ <http://smokymountainmodelworks.com/>
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