"Takin' Twenty" with the Virginian Brethren by Skip Salmon

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Skip, "1997 Jamestown Exposition"?  I think you meant 1907 Jamestown
Exposition. :)  Jerry Kay


On Thu, Sep 22, 2016 at 8:11 AM, NW Mailing List <nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org>
wrote:

> Last night I had the pleasure of "Takin' Twenty" with five of the Brethren
> and Friends of the Virginian Railway.  Our waitress Saba said she had been
> feeling sort of lowly all day and I  reminded her that it was probably
> because ob the changing from summer to fall...
>
>
>  The ebay report this time includes the following Virginian RWY items
> sold:  two 8X10 prints, #900 and #251 at Princeton in 1958 for $30.49; VGN
> RWY blotter for $8.50; 35MM slide of VGN AG #903 at Roanoke in 1957 for
> $54.99; VGN RWY class diagram for freight cars, Marty Swartz Resource Guide
> and a Painting and Lettering guide for Freight Cars and Locomotives for
> $24.99.
>
>
>  The Jewel from the Past is from May 14, 2009:  "Passed around was my
> recent ebay purchase of an article from August 1956 'Trains' entitled 'Of
> black Upholstery and Commanding Exhaust'.  'Cessation of Virginian
> passenger service provokes warm memories of orange cars, shoe box lunches,
> and Teddy Roosevelt regaling the riders with tales of San Juan Hill'.  The
> article mentioned Sunday 'extra' Church Trains, Teddy Roosevelt speaking
> at the 1997 Jamestown Exposition to VGN riders and called VGN #3 and #4
> 'shoe box and cinders trains'.  The article told of orange coaches that
> matched the stations before and riders 'bragging about dinners on the night
> trains (#3) that left Norfolk's Union Station at 10 PM and arrived in
> Roanoke at 8 AM the next morning, the same hour as the day train (#4)
> took off for Norfolk'.  They were trains with straight-back seats of somber
> black upholstery, spittoons and windows to stick your head into the winds
> and hear the stout steam engine moan, and whistle with commanding exhaust
> pluming from the smokestack.  Engineers and firemen were quick to pitch
> candy to kids..."
>
>
>  Our good friend Robin Shaver asked for more unusual train names from
> Landon's 1948 book:  PRR E. St. Louis to Enola, PA "Uncle Sam"; SAL
> Richmond to Bostic, NC "The Tarheel": PRR Crestline, OH to Buffalo "The
> Salesman"; IC Council Bluffs, IA to Freeort, IL "Pork Chops" and IC
> Centralia, IL to Chicago "Naked Lady".
>
>
>  Thanks to Tom "Saltwater" Salmon for our new header on this site
> highlighting our VGN Passenger Station in Roanoke.  We are having the first
> scheduled event there this Saturday, a picnic for Roanoke Chapter NRHS
> members to show them their restored beauty.  We will have an open house for
> the public in November and I will keep you posted.
>
>
>  One of our Brethren needs some encouragement, Robert "Little Abner"
> Glass.  He is currently at the VA CLC in Hampton, VA room 121 and can
> receive calls at 757 439 0803.  An email can be sent to him at <
> boberselglass at cox.net>  Bob was a clerk at Sewells Point and Lamberts
> Point and worked with colliers unloading coal.
>
>
>  Then there's This:  Two American Astronauts land on the moon and begin
> exploring.  Mission Control asked if they have found anything to report.
> "Yes sir, we do.  We have found a deceased female.  It appears to be a
> 'Mrs. Ralph Kramden".
>
>
>  Time to pull the pin on this one.
>
>
>  Departing Now from V248,
>
>
>  Skip Salmon
>
>
>  DCXXI
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