Freight Station Signage

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Matt, I'm almost positive this says
NORFOLK AND WESTERN RY
FREIGHT STATION

Mike Rector
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On Mon, Oct 6, 2025 at 11:02 AM NW Mailing List via NW-Mailing-List <
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> The Ohio Railway Museum recently shared three photos of #578 being
> transported to their museum in 1959. Happily for me, all were taken while
> the locomotive was parked on the Tomato Track, alongside Circleville,
> Ohio’s, freight station. Before finding this, I had all of two photos of
> this building.
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> However, I’m having trouble making out the wording of the top line of the
> gable-end sign. Perhaps those of you with more knowledge of this topic an
> take an educated guess; my guess is that this kind of wording was pretty
> standardized?  And a similar question for the ridge sign (second
> attachment).
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> Side note, I cropped both images down to manage the message size, and to
> keep the ORM attribution. If anyone would like to see the full image, I can
> send them in a separate email.
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> Matt Goodman
> Columbus, Ohio
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