Burkville

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The passenger station at Burkville, VA had two bay windows.  The one on 
the north side of the station faced the Southern RY and the one on the 
South side faced the N&W tracks and the Joint freight station. Ken's 
post helped my memory.

As additional information the operator and telegraph for the N&W was in 
the South side bay window facing the freight station.  In the late 20's 
the tower at Burkville, just East of the station, was destroyed by a 
train wreck.  The tower man and his machine was then moved into the 
station and sit in front of the bay window on the North side of the 
passenger station. There may be a few photos of this wreck and the lever 
man and machine in the station.  There was an article on train control 
on the Burkville belt line in one of the early N&W magazines.

The photo looks like it was from the mid 50's.  At that time Bill 
Mason's father was agent at the  Crewe passenger station.  He had worked 
at Burkville along with other family members.  I never paid much 
attention to the Burkville station.  I road 3 & 4 numerous times during 
this period and could only remember the train stopping at Burkville one 
time.  The only reason to remember  this is because we had never stopped 
there before.  Who knows the photo could have been the day I was on the 
train.

Jim Blackstock

On 3/27/2022 3:30 PM, NW Mailing List wrote:
> This is/was not in Lynchburg, each RR had its own freight station, though they were indeed downtown near the river. The N&W's freight station still exists and is now a popular restaurant. The Southern's freight station was a little further up-river near Griffen Pipe Co. I would've guessed Bristol. -Ed Burnett, Lynchburg, Virginia
>>   How about Lynchburg? The old Southern line down by the river was still there then.
>> Jim Nichols
>>      On Saturday, March 26, 2022, 09:04:14 AM CDT, NW Mailing List <nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org> wrote:
>>   
>>   Ebay pic:https://www.ebay.com/itm/115302437756?hash=item1ad88f937c:g:p~QAAOSwdkZiNjqe
>> Where is this N&W&S station?Jim Cochran________________________________________
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