Freight Station Signage

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Mike, That looks a lot like the N&W Freight Station in downtown Lynchburg.
-Ed Burnett, Lynchburg, Virginia

On Tue, Oct 7, 2025 at 10:14 AM NW Mailing List <nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org>
wrote:

> 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
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
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>> Subject: Re: Freight Station Signage
>>
>>
>> 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 <
>> nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org> wrote:
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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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