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Mason and Hanger, Radford Arsenal contractors
All:
Interesting articles. My dad worked for C.M. Guest Construction, Anderson,
SC, building the Arsenal (Ordinance Works). Could have been a sub to M&H.
He was then called up to serve in Germany and Belgium. After the war he
went to work for the City of Radford and then to the Arsenal in '48 putting
in 30 years with Hercules.
Charlie Long
Lynchburg
The one in Virginia

On Mon, Jan 30, 2023 at 1:35 PM NW Mailing List <nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org>
wrote:

> While surfing the Virginia Chronicle (https://virginiachronicle.com/), I
> ran across this report from the *Radford News Journal*, 5 June 1941, pg.
> 1. Based on that traffic, Walton and Cowan would have been happening places
> to be to see all those freights go by to reach the under-construction
> plant.
>
> *Plant Work Is 80 Pct. Complete*
>
> The total number of bulk material loads received in railroad cars at the
> plant for the week ending May 22 was 546, an increase of 56 over the
> previous week. Of the 546 cars, 305 consisted of stone; 43 of sand; 25 of
> merchandise; 21 of pipe; 33 of cement; 23 of rock dust; 29 of chemicals, 13
> of lumber; and 16 of miscellaneous machinery. To this date, a total of
> 17,966 railroad cars of bulk materials have been received at the Radford
> Ordnance works.
>
>
> Also attached is a page from the *Hercules News*, a mimeographed
> newsletter published weekly by the Hercules Powder Company (operator of the
> Radford Arsenal) and the Mason & Hanger Company (contractor building the
> plant). This page is possibly from 1941 and shows the multiple passenger
> trains that were run to bring workers to the plant.
>
> Bruce in Blacksburg
>
>
> [image: Page4.jpg]
>
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