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Re: Spring Excursion on <b>North Carolina Rails</b> on April 18,
2009<br>
By Jim Overholser and Jim Cosby<br>
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On April 18, 2009, the Roanoke Chapter, National Railway Historical
Society, is sponsoring a bus trip to<b> Greensboro, North Carolina</b>
where we will ride the north (and east) bound Amtrak <i>Carolinian
</i>to <b>Rocky Mount, NC</b>, and then return to Greensboro and
Roanoke. We will leave from the <b>Virginia Museum of
Transportation</b> parking lot at 303 Norfolk Ave., SW in Roanoke at 6:00
am. We will make a brief rest and breakfast stop en route and
arrive at Greensboro’s restored station to board at about 9:20 am.
We will arrive in Rocky Mount about 12:30 pm and have time for lunch,
sightseeing, etc. The station in Rocky Mount has been beautifully
restored and we will see it with our tour guide, Barry Rakes, who was the
restoration architect there and is also the architect for our Virginian
Railway station restoration in Roanoke. We will board the south
(and west) bound <i>Carolinian</i> at 3:00 pm, return to Greensboro about
6:30 pm, stop for supper en route and arrive back in Roanoke about 9:30
pm. The trip will include over 300 miles of train travel including
recently rebuilt 79 mph track on the North Carolina Railroad operated by
Norfolk Southern, and on former Atlantic Coast Line track operated by
CSX. Co-sponsors of the trip are the <b>O. Winston Link Museum,
Norfolk and Western Historical Society, </b>and<b> Virginia Museum of
Transportation. <br>
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The trip is priced at $90 for seniors age 62 and over, $95 for other
adults and $70 for youth ages 2 through 15. Tickets will be sold on
a first-come, first-served basis and will likely be sold out early.
To reserve your ticket(s), send your check along with your name, address,
phone number, email address and type of ticket purchased (adult, senior
or youth) to the address at the top of this flyer. Alternatively,
you may purchase your tickets by credit card at the <b>O. Winston Link
Museum</b>, 540-982-5465. No refunds will be given after February
20<sup>th</sup> as we cannot cancel reservations after that date.
However, tickets may be transferred to another person in the same ticket
category (adult, senior or youth) up until April 1<sup>st</sup>.
<b>Please note</b> that you will have to present a <b>photo
identification card</b> in order to board and it must match the name on
the passenger list. <br><br>
<b>Walter Alexander, Membership Chairman & Electronic Billing
Contact<br>
Roanoke Chapter NRHS<br>
</b> <br>
<a href="http://www.roanokenrhs.org/" eudora="autourl">
http://www.roanokenrhs.org/</a><br><br>
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