Walton "BH Tower, Date for Closing

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In cleaning out some boxes of old paperwork last evening, I ran across a note scribbled on the back of an N&W Empty Car Waybill. It says, "BH Walton closed October 12, 1959, 11:59PM." 

Random information lacking attribution or source reference lacks real credibility, but I think I wrote the note after a 1970s conversation with Radford Division Telegrapher Scott Spradlin, who hired in the 1940s and worked BH. 

Note that the date is just six weeks before the "Virginian merger," and I have to wonder how the closing of BH was related to merger planning. 

-- abram burnett 


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