I saw that, but, I would realy like to keep it close to a area I know, my home town of Petersburg and the areas around there.
rt,
Invest in a copy of “The Norfolk and Western…As I Knew It!” by August A. Thieme. There are three pictures of the turntable at Petersburg. Several other PB pics including the coaling tower.
know a place to buy it?
wonder if they will take a check, I hate using my card online…
Sure, they have always taken mine.
is there a print off form to fill out or do I just write them?
Hang loose and I’ll get you one. My order form got thrown away a week or more ago and I don’t have an address right at this second.
Ok rt, here you go;
N&WHS
P.O. Box 13908
Roanoke, Va. 24038
thanks!
You’re welcome and Merry Christmas.
BTW, the webmeister has now added the address to the commissary web page.
I think I may have a idea on were the turntable in petersburg
was. This christmas I got a copy of Norfolk & Western …Steam’s
last Stand by Mallory H Ferrell. If any of you have that book, have
a look at the photo on Page 283. I shows a Class A passing
Petersburg station.
NOW, in the very background, up the track, there is a large building
with a peaked roof, with what looks like the word COAL at the top. I
know that building, cause its still standing. The track close to the
river, is no longer there, it is now part of River St. My best guess
is that the photo was taken about were the MLKing Jr/US1 bridge now
stands. If thats the case, I belive the tabel/roundhouse was the
other side of that bridge. But thats my best guess.
On another note: I may be getting ahead of myself, but, I have been looking at rolling stock for my layout. Anyone able to tell me what cars would fit the time frame I am looking for. Years would be 1948 to about 1954.
I am hoping maybe some of you out there can give me a idea of what I can do with this space I will soon I have.
I would like to have one fairly size Yard with roundhouse. Steam power around 1950 on the Norfolk and Western. Modeled on the run from around Farmville to about Petersburg. A good mox of mainline run and switching at the stops. A good showing of Coal being moved east and hoppers moving back to the mines to the west. I want to make this layout in sections so I can move it if I move again and/or set it up another way, like add more run to it, take some of it away…kinda of a around the wall type.
Anyone got any ideas?
bigjim, who do I make a check to when ordering by mail from the NWHS?
Make it out to the N&W Historical Society.
Good Luck with it in N scale, i’m in the same boat. Atlas is your best bet for equipment, but bachmann has a few items. plan on painting most of your fleet, but micro scale offers decals for us
has been some time sence I made a post on this, but, been doing some thinking about my layout. Got a question, Hopwell Va, in 1950, what plants were down there, other then dupont and did any of them have there own power plants. If so, were they coal fired.
Reason for my question. In planing my layout the other day, I wanted to have coal coming from a mine to a power plant/other area that uses coal. I know today that there are at two coal plants in hopwell, but, what about 1950. If so, then there is my power plant and not having to say that the coal train in question is going all the way to Norfolk for other seas shipping.
got a few new questions on the N&W for you all.
I am leaning to more of a freelance way of routing track on my layout, but keeping it close to how the N&W did things. Now, in towns and stations, did they have a standerd that they lay there track out to. I am planing on laying out a fully 2 track line, one track east and one west bound, with passing tracks on the out side of the lines at stations and cross overs before and after the passing tracks. Would this work?
Coal is King, thats a good way of thinking about the N&W. I would like to know, whats a good chose for a coal mine area on the N&W(just going to pick one and do it, no matter how far off what I am doing cause I want to have one mine atleast) and from about Farmville to Petersburg areas, is there any type of business that would get shipments of coal in heavy numbers, like a powerplant or the like?
Please remember, I am modeling 1950s.
Thanks all
Virtually all the coal on the N&W came from “west” of Bluefield, be that the Southwest Virginia coal from the area of Coeburn & Norton, or the multiple branches for coal above Princeton. As you look at the NW map in the front cover of Steam’s Last Stand, almost all those shorter branches west and north of Bluefield are to tap coal. This may not be too hard to depict in a layout centering around Petersburg/Farmville by using a scene break. There are multiple N&W tunnels between the Roanoke Valley and Bluefield, so you cold use a mountain and a tunnel as a scene break implying 100+ miles to the mountains. The Montgomery twin tunnels would be clearly NW in appearance.
Look again at p 223, p 228, and p 240-241 in Ferrell’s book. One good-sized tipple is all you need to create the gritty image. If that has two tracks under the tipple, you might be able to position the coal mine on the opposite side of the backdrop (scene break) from one of those industrial powerhouses towards Hopewell. You could then have an “empties in, loads out” constant operation.
Bill
thanks bill
Also, this past weekend, I stop in at the Greenburg Train show when it was in Frederickbug Va, and got a sweet deal. The Book, “The Norfolk and Western, As I knew it”. Found it there for all of $50!
well, I have made my mind up on it. I am going to plan my layout as followes:
Coal mine in or around the area of St Paul Va, with interchange with the Chinchfeild RR.
Jumping over to around Farmville and running to around wakefield Va.
Now, I know of some of the places in and around wakefield to petersburg that could be served by rail, and having my yard as Crewe Va, and the C&O interchange between crewe and farmville, but anyone else have any ideas on other ideas?