Virginian Railroad Telegraph Calls ... at Last

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That VGN  list contained all known stations.  The Poca and Scioto only 
contained the ones with a telegraph.   You talk about confusing on the 
POCA.  It would really be a night mare with all stations. You would even 
find they had a station in WV named Kermet in 1906.  No relation to Kermit.

On 9/17/2024 12:28 PM, NW Mailing List via NW-Mailing-List wrote:
> Like many who have struggled to bring synthesis to fields of information with diverse data and sources, I have wrestled with the Virginian Telegraph Calls ever since Clyde Weatherly, the VGN Operator/Leverman at JK Tower, gave me a typewritten list in the 1970s.
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> Clyde's information came from betwixt his ears: He was a 1939 (I think) hired telegraph operator on the VGN Norfolk Division. In the 1970s, there was little other information on the topic save living memory.
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> And then came the wonderful digitized world, with its Internet and scanners and digital archives and E-mail and discussion lists. All of which have made "doing history" faster, easier, more productive, less frustrating, and vastly more rewarding.
>
> And thus it was that I set out to make one grand synthesis of the Virginian Telegraph Calls. After that task was begun, I realized that Mr. James B. Blackstock, of Roanoke, had already done a vast amount of spadework, been through all the VGN Time Tables in the N&W Archives, and had done the tedious and arduous work of putting the data into a tailor-made Excel spreadsheet.
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> With Jim's permission, I adopted his file as my working basis, and the end product (almost exclusively Jim's work) is attached as a PDF. The few little things I changed, Jim will probably never notice.  New data is always welcomed.
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> Thank you, Mr. Blackstock !
>
> -- abram burnett,
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