Back When We Slept and Cooked on the Caboose

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Thanks guys for relating/posting these stories & memories!

Herb Edwards
Lynchburg, Va. 


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> On Mar 26, 2022, at 4:03 PM, NW Mailing List <nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org> wrote:
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> Chuck,
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> The best that I remember from my three summers working as a laborer in the N&W shop in Durham was that the dormitory (or whatever it was called) faced W. Trinity Ave.  in the southeast (compass direction) quadrant of the cross formed by the N&W tracks and the avenue.  I never had any interaction with the dormitory, so I did not pay much attention to it.
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> Regarding crew's eating, they sometimes cooked something on a small coal stove in what I believe was the crew register room next door to the shop office.  Passenger engineer "Uncle" Joe Richardson regularly dumped a can of spam into a skillet along with a sliced onion and cooked it on the stove.  This led some of the railroaders there to maintain that onions were healthful because of his advances age. "Uncle" Joe was in his eighty's but still ran the steam (Class K1) powered passenger train every day between Durham and Lynchburg.  I was told that the BLE stated that he was the oldest active engineer in the USA.  Even on the hottest North Carolina summer day he wore heavy clothes, maintaining that whatever kept the cold out likewise kept the heat out!
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> Gordon Hamilton
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> On 3/25/2022 11:42 AM, NW Mailing List via NW-Mailing-List wrote:
>> When the Durham District had shops in in Durham, what would crews do there for eating and sleeping?
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>> Chuck Stewart
>> Bahama (the one in Durham County) NC
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>>> On Mar 25, 2022, at 11:04 AM, NW Mailing List via NW-Mailing-List <nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org> wrote:
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>>> As I recall, The West Virginian had nine floors (+ or -).
>>> Arriving Bluefield on No. 3, I walked up the hill and
>>> registered.  The clerk assigned me to a room on the
>>> top floor.  I went to the elevator and pressed the UP
>>> button.  NOTHING.  So I walked up the stairway and
>>> found the elevator with the door braced open and the
>>> operator asleep.                   Harry Bundy
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