not quite so light reading

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Gordon,
I am happy you found my efforts helpful.  I am still going through the old
periodicals as time allows searching for nuggets and will send when I have
a large enough pan.
Jim Cochran

On Sun, Jan 10, 2021 at 4:11 AM NW Mailing List <nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org>
wrote:

> Jim,
>
> I want to thank you for the N&W and VGN items that you gleaned from *Railway
> Review 1883-1893* (Mailing List 5/24/20), and *The railway and
> Engineering Review 1897-1909*.  I know that it must have taken a lot of
> work on your part to search and copy the many items from these two
> publications.
>
> I was interested in these items, so I archived them until I could give
> them the attention they deserved (which I have now done).  One item in the
> Sep. 26, 1908, issue of the Engineering Review about a new N&W coaling
> station at Concord, VA, particularly intrigued me.  It stated:
>
> "Official reports show that the average time required to coal the heavy
> through-service passenger engines is only 35 seconds, counting from the
> instant the train comes to a standstill until it moves away."
>
> WOW!  Unless that is a misprint, that is fast!
>
> Gordon Hamilton
> On 5/25/2020 9:51 AM, NW Mailing List wrote:
>
> All,
> The attached PDF has N&W news from The Railway and Engineering Review
> 1897-1909 with a bit that might be of interest to VGN folk.
> Jim Cochran
>
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