Norfolk: Carpenter Map of Railroads in 1946

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I, for one,would very much appreciate seeing the west end. Thank you so 
much. Bob Cook, Chesapeake VA

On 9/17/2024 11:56 AM, NW Mailing List via NW-Mailing-List wrote:
> Of late I have been working on a list of Virginian RR Telegraph 
> Calls.  The two ends of that railroad, the coal fields and Norfolk, 
> are enigmas wrapped inside black holes and viewed in a coal bin at 
> Midnight, for all save those who have spent time there.  So, when lost 
> in the Norfolk Quagmire, I had to pull out Richard C. Carpenter's 
> work, A Railroad Atlas of the United States in 1946 (Johns Hopkins 
> University press, Baltimore, 2003.)
> Knowing there are other lost souls wandering in the swamps of Sewells 
> and Lamberts Points, I scanned the image, edited a few tweeks, and 
> attach it herewith.   May it help others as much as it has helped me.
> I would be remiss if I did not call to memory the Friend and 
> Benefactor by whose generosity I have this book, Frederick L. Malan, 
> now of of Blessed Memory.  Fred was Conrail's Tariff and Rate guru, 
> and had learned those mysteries on the Illinois Central Railroad.  He 
> was a brilliant man of truly global interests, and on my thrice-yearly 
> trips to corporate headquarters in Philadelphia, I always scheduled 
> some time to visit with Fred.  The Carpenter Atlas volumes were 
> somewhat expensive when published, and knowing I was raising three 
> kids, Fred had a copy sent to me direct from the publisher, for which 
> I have always been grateful.  After he retired, Fred had me to him 
> home in Philadelphia once.  The reciprocity came on 1998, when, after 
> he was retired, Fred wanted a Searchlight Signal. He got one from Belt 
> Line Junction in Reading, during the memorably August when we rebuilt 
> that interlocking, and my indebtedness to him was thusly (partially) 
> discharged.
> If there is favorable outcry from the Virginian Brethren, perhaps I 
> can also scan the pages mapping the mysterious and octopus-like west 
> end of our old friend, the Virginian.
> --  abram burnett
> Haulin'  Turnips on the Virginian !
>  .
>
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