<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div dir="auto">Carl and some others,</div><div dir="auto">You need to not take everything so seriously and read the "tongue-in-cheek" way that some of us include in our writings. Point being the "Turnip Master's" style of writing to begin with.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Jimmy Lisle</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div id="composer_signature" dir="auto"><div style="font-size:12px;color:#575757" dir="auto">Sent from my Galaxy</div></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div><br></div><div align="left" dir="auto" style="font-size:100%;color:#000000"><div>-------- Original message --------</div><div>From: NW Mailing List <nw-mailing-list@nwhs.org> </div><div>Date: 12/29/24 7:05 AM (GMT-05:00) </div><div>To: NW Mailing List <nw-mailing-list@nwhs.org> </div><div>Subject: Re: Blacksburg Grand Union Terminal Station and End-of-Track </div><div><br></div></div>
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Doesn't a "Union" station imply a station that servers other railroads as well? If so, what other railroads served that station?</div>
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<b>Subject:</b> Re: Blacksburg Grand Union Terminal Station and End-of-Track</font>
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<div data-setdir="false" dir="ltr">I was just starting out at VPI (as it was called back then) in the fall of 1959, and recall both of those photos very clearly. Thanks for the trip down down memory lane!!!!</div>
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<div>On Saturday, December 28, 2024 at 05:39:50 PM EST, NW Mailing List via NW-Mailing-List <nw-mailing-list@nwhs.org> wrote:
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<div dir="ltr">That mean ole Mister Cochran, the Burgermeister of Newport, Va, is makin' me shuffle through all my negative scans, when I could be doin' something productive like playing Tiddle-de-Winks down at the Senior Citizens' Center.<br>
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<div dir="ltr">So I ran across the two attached photos, one of the Blacksburg Grand Union Terminal Station, and the other of the End-of-Track which was a just a few feet beyond said station. Notice the flowers planted between the rails just ahead of the road
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<div dir="ltr">Date was June 1963. I had just finished high school and had a job at the Johnson-Carper Furniture Factory at North Roanoke, and a friend and I went up to Christiansburg and Blacksburg for a little Saturday outing. As I recall, T. B. (Terry) Wood
was the Station Agent at the time. Terry was a 1936-hire telegraph operator. And I think the Agent at Christiansburg was Arnold A. Overstreet, who was a 1917-hire. The station number for Blacksburg was BJ-9, which indicated 9 miles from Blacksburg Branch Junction.
Blacksburg never had a Telegraph Call because it never had telegraph... the Blacksburg Branch was built and acquired after the telephone had come into use, and the railroad never ran a Morse circuit from Christiansburg to the end of the branch.<br>
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<div dir="ltr">A little memory of Mr. Overstreet... As a teenager, I would often ride No. 15 from Roanoke to Christiansburg, then ride the mixed train over to Blacksburg and back, and then catch No. 46 back to Roanoke. Mr. Overstreet recognized us boys as "regulars."
So one day he wanted to treat us and sent us down to a little restaurant near the crossing, to get lunch. He opened his billfold and handed me a $50 bill, and said, "You can bring the change back to me." We had never seen a $50 bill before ! We each had a
hot dog and a bottle of soda, and probably returned to him $49 dollars in greenbacks, plus a few coins. I shall never forget his generosity and his trust of us. Good memories...<br>
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