NW-Mailing-List Digest, Vol 251, Issue 18

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DavidThanks for your post & your direct ‘hands-on’ experiences on the C&W…..”Crooked & Weedy”…. “Cuss & Wait” If the editorial board (?) of the NWHS agree, & if you have the time & inclination, a personal experience article about your time on the C&W for The Arrow would be of great interest to many. 
Best regardsHerb EdwardsLynchburg, Va


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On Monday, May 19, 2025, 6:47 AM, NW Mailing List <nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org> wrote:


On Sat, May 17, 2025 at 5:56 PM 

   5. Re: Chesapeake Western Railway today (NW Mailing 
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Message: 5  from Jim Brewer


John and Herb's post led me to a search of Sanborn map for Harrisonburg;
what a great model railroad it would be, albeit, not N&W!


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I couldn’t agree with Jim more.  Growing up in and around Harrisonburg and the CW, that was railroading as I knew it.  Working on the CW section gang while in college only cemented my love for the line.  Working for the NW introduced me to big time railroading, but that wasn’t where my heart was.
Except for big, mainline railroading, the CW had it all at one time or another, backwoods logging and little shays, lots of interchange, unusual power, and lots of stuff with an N&W heritage, and if you are interested, after the T-6's were retired and big power came into town, you even had the Norfolk Southern's biggest power and foreign road units in Harrisonburg, running off the hours.  There was / is a wide di\versity of traffic, not just chicken feed, and now they get full trains of grain and feed for the distribution center just south of Broadway.  
I’ve collected a lot of CW information through the years, and being so closely related to the NW has helped.  I’m planning an O scale version of the CW, I described what I want to build in O Scale Trains, the Nov / Dec 2023 issue.  Not the Pocahontas Division, not even Elkton to Harrisonburg, just the wye south of the Farm Bureau to the station.  And maybe when I get past my latest project this letter will prompt me to get to work on what I've told everyone I want to build for years.

David Ray


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