Mainline through Farmville

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With my Bolex in the late 50's, I shot 16mm  of  several J's stopping at 
the Farmville Station both east and westbound. I have the loading of 
baggage and passengers.  One of these years I will get around to 
transferring the whole N&W film, which is over an hour long, to DVD.  
Right now I'm at work on the 14 foot model of the Lambert's Point Turn 
Table - lots and lots of rivets.

Ron Peisker

On Tuesday, August 2, 2005, at 08:28  AM, nw-mailing-list-
request at nwhs.org wrote:


> Message: 5

> Date: Mon, 1 Aug 2005 19:49:18 -0400

> From: nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org

> Subject: Abandonment of NS line through Farmville, VA is underway

> To: "N&W Mailing List" <NW-Mailing-List at nwhs.org>

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> Evening All -

>

> The physical abandonment of the former N&W mainline through Farmville 

> has officially started. NS MOW crews are starting at Pamplin and 

> working their way east. Just this afternoon (yes, on a Sunday) there 

> was a spike pulling machine working eastbound just west of Prospect.  

> Not far behind was a crane pulling ties.  I was able to shoot over 60 

> photos today at various locations to document the line before the rails 

> are gone forever.  I did note that all of the signals with the 

> exception of Atwood and Shields were dark.  It will never look the same.

>

> I have posted a thread on trainorders with photos, just follow the link 

> below.

> http://www.trainorders.com/discussion/read.php?2,970182

>

> For those who aren't members of trainorders, I have uploaded the images 

> to my website.

> http://members.trainorders.com/varailfan/images/farmville_abandonment_1.jpg

> http://members.trainorders.com/varailfan/images/farmville_abandonment_2.jpg

>

> Jeff Hawkins

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