Anecdotal info on Damascus Depot (NW Mailing List)

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I am not familiar with the station at Damascus, but if it was built on a
plan common to many small stations, it did have freight doors on the
backside. My grandfather was the agent at Rice, Va. For 42 years. That
station did have freight doors on the side away from the track.

Bill Mason


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1. Re: Midvale - August 19, 1969 A.D. (NW Mailing List)
2. Anecdotal info on Damascus Depot (NW Mailing List)
3. Re: Midvale - August 19, 1969 A.D. (NW Mailing List)


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The name of the Trainman was Andrew Jackson and he lived in Alexandria, I
knew him well and I talked to his younger brother on the phone two weeks
ago.
HB Lyon



>En route to Lynchburg on the Southern Crescent, the trainman told me

>he'd been on No. 47 the night of August 19. He said the rain was

>coming down so hard, it was conforming to the fluted sides of the

>sleeping cars and looking from the rear of the train, the rain was

>coming off in streams..

>

>Some time later, he was on the northbound Crescent that derailed on a

>curve north of Shipman account overspeed. He survived the derailment,

>but afterward, he had a heart attack and died on site.

> Harry Bundy

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Friends,
I have had someone make a drawing of the depot at Damascus based on some
actual data about the width and length and then scaling the rest from the
few photos that have been published. I think it looks pretty good.

My question is this: were there freight doors on the back side of the depot?
Several photos by O. Winston Link show a siding that runs off to the rear of
the depot. Would that indicate freight doors back there? If anyone remembers
this detail or any other details I would appreciate hearing from you.
Regards

Joe Giannovario
Publisher
O Scale Trains Magazine



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Subject: Re: Midvale - August 19, 1969 A.D.
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I and my brother-in-law were caught in the storm driving from Scottsville on
the James River to Rockfish Gap (Afton Mountain) on our way to pick up some
freight at the Smith trucking terminal in Verona. I have never been so
frightened in my life. Remember--no one predicted this or even knew it was
coming. We thought it was just a bad line of thunderstorms. I have never
before or since seen rain falling so hard that there was 4-6" of water in
the roadway at the crest of hills! Kudzu was sloughing off the banks in
huge rafts. When we crested Afton Mountain the view was eerie. The air
being pushed up the mountain from the valley side was perfectly clear with a
ceiling several thousand feet up. At the mountain crest the water vapor
condensed out to form a wall of white that filled the sky to the east with
crazy roiling shapes. It was like something you see now in special effects
in movies about world-ending natural disasters. Of course, the world did
end for several hun dred people that night in Virginia. We did make it to
Verona and back across the mountain to Charlottesville. After we got into
Charlottesville the state police closed every road leading out of the city
and we had to spend the night at the Monticello Hotel. The next morning we
were able to get out of town, but every time we turned south to try to cross
the James River roads were blocked by flooding creeks. Finally, we made a
mad dash for Richmond and managed to beat the floodwaters before all the
bridges in Richmond were closed and then drove back west to Farmville. I
don't think Farmville had gotten a drop of rain!

I know there is no railroad-related info here, but just had to tell what it
was like to be in the middle of this monster. For those who think that the
superlatives that are bandied about concerning this storm are just tall
tales (most rain in three hours in world history, for example), I can assure
you that they are not.

Thanks,

Sam Putney



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En route to Lynchburg on the Southern Crescent, the trainman told
me he'd been on No. 47 the night of August 19. He said the rain
was coming down so hard, it was conforming to the fluted sides
of the sleeping cars and looking from the rear of the train, the rain
was coming off in streams..

Some time later, he was on the northbound Crescent that derailed
on a curve north of Shipman account overspeed. He survived the
derailment, but afterward, he had a heart attack and died on site.
Harry Bundy


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