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<DIV>This is image ns3144 in the Va. Tech image database (page: <A
href="http://imagebase.lib.vt.edu/search.php">http://imagebase.lib.vt.edu/search.php</A>),
N&W negative Neg#12963-B, and the accompanying information is that it is No.
3 crossing High Bridge, Aug. 1929. The negative number is clearly visible
in Prince's book, but apparently has been deleted in the photo that McMahan is
selling.</DIV>
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<DIV>Gordon Hamilton</DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Saturday, January 31, 2009 12:20
AM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> High Bridge</DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV><SPAN class=Apple-style-span style="FONT-SIZE: large">I was
just surfing the web and came across a picture of High Bridge with a passenger
train on it. It appears to be the same image as the one on page 81 of Richard
Prince's book, <SPAN class=Apple-style-span
style="TEXT-DECORATION: underline">Norfolk & Western
Railway</SPAN>. </SPAN>
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<DIV><SPAN class=Apple-style-span style="FONT-SIZE: large">The web site I
found it on is Robert McMahan Photography.</SPAN>
<DIV><SPAN class=Apple-style-span style="FONT-SIZE: 18px"><SPAN
class=Apple-style-span style="FONT-SIZE: 13px">
<DIV><SPAN class=Apple-style-span
style="FONT-SIZE: 18px; LINE-HEIGHT: 18px; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><SPAN
class=Apple-style-span
style="FONT-SIZE: 13px; LINE-HEIGHT: normal; FONT-FAMILY: arial"><SPAN
class=Apple-style-span
style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 18px; LINE-HEIGHT: 18px"><SPAN
class=Apple-style-span
style="FONT-WEIGHT: normal; FONT-SIZE: 13px; LINE-HEIGHT: normal"><A
href="http://www.mcmahanphoto.com/lc1454--antique-steam-train-on-trestle-bridge-1946-photo.html">http://www.mcmahanphoto.com/lc1454--antique-steam-train-on-trestle-bridge-1946-photo.html</A></SPAN></SPAN></SPAN></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV></SPAN></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=Apple-style-span style="FONT-SIZE: large">The sad thing is
that the caption makes no mention of the N&W. It just says it is
an <SPAN class=Apple-style-span
style="LINE-HEIGHT: 18px; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">"Antique Steam Train on Trestle
Bridge 1946" and it credits the "Office of War Information, image LC1454".
This date contradicts the date listed in Prince's book which is given as
1929. I wonder which date is correct?</SPAN></SPAN></DIV>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 18px; LINE-HEIGHT: 18px"><BR></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=Apple-style-span
style="FONT-SIZE: 18px; LINE-HEIGHT: 18px">Jerry Kay, Portsmouth,
Va.<BR></SPAN>
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