Freight Station Signage

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perhaps a clue?
no location on the Archive entry

Mike Rector

https://www.nwhs.org/archivesdb/detail.php?ID=90482
[image: image.png]

On Tue, Oct 7, 2025 at 8:51 AM NW Mailing List <nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org>
wrote:

> I believe that is what the top line should say, but there is definitely a
> different font for the second "word". I believe I can make out "NORF" then
> something that looks like a cursive script and finally "WESTERN RY". It
> also looks like the background of the script lettering is lighter, like it
> was more recently painted. I can not decipher the script.
>
>
>
> Brent Stevens
>
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>
> Matt, I'm almost positive this says
> NORFOLK AND WESTERN RY
> FREIGHT STATION
>
> Mike Rector
> [image: image.png]
>
> On Mon, Oct 6, 2025 at 11:02 AM NW Mailing List via NW-Mailing-List <
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>> The Ohio Railway Museum recently shared three photos of #578 being
>> transported to their museum in 1959. Happily for me, all were taken while
>> the locomotive was parked on the Tomato Track, alongside Circleville,
>> Ohio’s, freight station. Before finding this, I had all of two photos of
>> this building.
>>
>> However, I’m having trouble making out the wording of the top line of the
>> gable-end sign. Perhaps those of you with more knowledge of this topic an
>> take an educated guess; my guess is that this kind of wording was pretty
>> standardized?  And a similar question for the ridge sign (second
>> attachment).
>>
>> Side note, I cropped both images down to manage the message size, and to
>> keep the ORM attribution. If anyone would like to see the full image, I can
>> send them in a separate email.
>>
>> Matt Goodman
>> Columbus, Ohio
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