Main Line Coal at Glade Spring?

[NW Mailing List]

Abe

https://www.nwhs.org/archivesdb/detail.php?ID=32839

https://www.nwhs.org/archivesdb/detail.php?ID=124811

Appears to me to show the chutes over the tracks

Best
Ken Miller

> On May 17, 2021, at 2:37 PM, NW Mailing List <nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org> wrote:
> 
> Ever wish you had asked more questions sixty years ago?  And kept notes...?
>  
> My recollection is that the Old Timers told me engines, at one time,  could be coaled while standing on the main track at Glade Spring.  I.e. that they did not have to **cut off and go in** (go into the yard) to get coal.
>  
> Unfortunate for this theory is the fact that the old photos do not show any coal wharf spanning the main track, and that I do not remember seeing the foundations of such a structure when I was working at GS almost sixty years ago.
> Anyone know the details of coal at GS ?
>  
> -- abram burnett, C.E.O.
> Gain-of-Function Turnips, LLC
>  
> ________________________________________
> NW-Mailing-List at nwhs.org
> To change your subscription go to
> http://list.nwhs.org/mailman/options/nw-mailing-list
> Browse the NW-Mailing-List archives at
> http://list.nwhs.org/pipermail/nw-mailing-list/