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Yes! Nine pages on mine mules, including details on the time period
and inbound shipments, beyond what I have. Excellent.<br>
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BTW Alex, I was not familiar with the Algoma track extension of
1925, thank you. However, a conductor recalled "shoving about 25
empties" up there and shoving the cab into that spur track. <br>
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That is, if and when it came along. From an earlier reply, cabs were
not always used on some short runs, but as those runs were cut off,
the trend seemed to be, "Don't leave home without it."
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extended to hold 25 empties to accommodate the new Algoma
tipple. The stub track, which only held four cars, was put in at
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One more piece of the puzzle.</div>
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Mine Mules extracted from "Gary Hollow,' my first book.</div>
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Thanks again, that is all amazingly helpful for me. One last
follow-up on this topic; how frequently were the cattle shipped
out from the Blackford turn?</div>
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I'm not that familiar with the traffic pattern, rules and regs
on stock moves. Regarding mules, they were shipped from the
Midwest in foreign-road stock cars and surprisingly late, into
the mid-1950s. First 84 often had a stock car or two on the head
end that might include hogs for Elliston. <br>
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The stockyard in Bluefield was on the north side of East Yard
just east of the coal wharf. Stock cars close on their time
limit were switched over to the pens to unload, rest, feed,
water, and reload cattle and hogs. <br>
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Yes, there was the Blackford Turn out of Bluefield to Honaker on
the Clinch Valley. In Bluefield, #85 would be held for hours
waiting for Blackford stock loads to be cut in on the head end. <br>
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Grant Carpenter<br>
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Thanks Grant! Can you tell us a little more about the
handling of mules? How often and where did these get shipped
from/to? Did they arrive in N&W stock cars or did they
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We frequently hear about the cattle extra out of Honaker, but
I've not really heard much about how those operated, or what
other points on the N&W may have had stock pens for either
shipments or deliveries. Do you have any first hand knowledge
about any of these?</div>
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