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<DIV>The Employee Time Table for January 1930, shows Third Class (mixed trains) for he following Pocahontas Division branch lines; Pond Creek, Lewis Creek, Honaker and Big Creek. You might want to get a copy of the re-print from the N&<SPAN>WHS</SPAN> store if they are still available.<BR><BR>Charlie<BR><BR>--- On <B>Fri, 10/23/09, NW Mailing List <I><nw-mailing-list@nwhs.org></I></B> wrote:<BR></DIV>
<BLOCKQUOTE style="BORDER-LEFT: rgb(16,16,255) 2px solid; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px"><BR>From: NW Mailing List <nw-mailing-list@nwhs.org><BR>Subject: Re: Mail transportation on the N&W Tug Fork Branch<BR>To: nw-mailing-list@nwhs.org<BR>Date: Friday, October 23, 2009, 2:53 PM<BR><BR>
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<DIV><FONT size=2><FONT face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">I too am interested in how any non - coal hopper traffic and how much of it was moved on branches mostly existing to service coal mines. <BR><BR>I have a small O scale railroad that is loosely based on an N&W coal branch. I always assumed that a boxcar of mining supplies or other freight would just be mixed in with the coal hoppers and brought up on a mine turn when needed. <BR><BR>However I have many steam era boxcars and a 4-8-0. I would love to a model a daily mixed freight on my coal branch.<BR><BR>Any further info is greatly appreciated.<BR><BR>Thanks is advance.<BR>Tom Lewis,<BR>Jax,FL </FONT></FONT><BR></DIV>
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<DIV><BR></DIV>-----Original Message-----<BR>From: NW Mailing List <nw-mailing-list@nwhs.org><BR>To: nw-mailing-list@nwhs.org<BR>Sent: Thu, Oct 22, 2009 12:24 pm<BR>Subject: Mail transportation on the N&W Tug Fork Branch<BR><BR>
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Subject: N&W in 1910--Mail service<BR>
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Bluefield Daily Telegraph<BR>
April 7, 1910<BR>
<BR>
NEW MAIL SERVICE<BR>
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Inaugurated on Tug Fork Branch of Norfolk and Western<BR>
<BR>
The Norfolk and Western has inaugurated a new mail service on the Tug Fork <BR>
branch. Two mails a day now go to Anawalt and this service is greatly <BR>
appreciated. The people along the Anawalt section now want an opportunity to <BR>
get the train to lay over at Pageton or Anawalt at night instead of at Gary as <BR>
they figure in this way they will be able to go to Welch or some other point and <BR>
return the same day. An effort will also be made to get a local freight service <BR>
on the line. There are eighteen or twenty mines on the Tug Fork branch and the <BR>
coal companies along the line feel that enough business goes to and from these <BR>
operations to warrant a local freight. It is likely that a petition will be <BR>
prepared asking for such an extension of the local freight service.<BR>
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[If there were no local freight service on Tug Fork branch how did these <BR>
eighteen or so mines get the material for the tipples and mine material such as <BR>
rails, cars, etc? As far as that goes how did any mines get started before the <BR>
railroad reached the mine location?]<BR>
<BR>
Gordon Hamilton<BR>
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<BR>
October 23, 2009<BR>
<BR>
Hello, Gordon:<BR>
<BR>
Wasn't "local freight" service primarily for carload and less-than-carload <BR>
merchanidise freight? My recollection is that "mine runs" on the N&W were not <BR>
considered local freight.<BR>
<BR>
Regarding the mail service, the Railway Mail Service Third Division would have <BR>
made a determination that mail volume and dispatches warranted mail being <BR>
handled on a second train. Although there were frequent communications between <BR>
a railroad's manager of mail (who also usually handled the express company <BR>
service relationships, too) and the district RMS staff, the added service would <BR>
have been initiated by the RMS, not the N&W.<BR>
<BR>
Good morning,<BR>
<BR>
Frank Scheer<BR>
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