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like making enough trees for a forest, shingling roofs, or cutting about a mil- lion pieces of stripwood to the same length for a board-by-board construc- tion project. Such things are fun, to a point, and then they become less fun. In order to break the boredom during


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these “drudge projects,” I often listen to recordings of old radio shows, shows that were broadcast from the l930’s to the 1950’s, great programs like the Jack Benny Show, Suspense, and The Lone Ranger. Unlike watching TV while modeling, I can keep my eyes on the work while my mind goes off on an adventure somewhere else, except for the part in charge of keeping the hand holding the hobby knife from slicing the fingers off the hand that isn’t! One of my favorite shows is a sci-fi


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A lot of construction is evident at the west end of Montgomery Tunnel near Christiansburg, Va., on July 4, 2015. The south bore is being notched to accomodate double-stack container trains as part of the Heartland Corridor project which will allow container trains to access Norfolk via Roanoke. C40-9W No. 9936 leads a westbound train out of the north bore. STEVE BARRY PHOTO


series called X Minus One, which ran in the waning days of network radio back in the 1950’s. In the opening of this show, the announcer dramatically tells listeners that they are about to experience adventures “in which you’ll


ing is not the same as the kind used to write poetry or to coax beautiful statu- ary out of a slab of marble. That is pure creativity, the kind that answers only to the heart and soul of the artist.


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most places. We were able to do some creative cropping to shoot steam and diesels passing the CPLs at Arthur and Christiansburg without the modern signals being in the way too much. Next year they’ll be entirely in the way (and not as charming). No trip to the N&W would be complete


without paying homage to famed photogra- pher O. Winston Link, and we did that on the ride down to Roanoke and on the trip back north. We followed the N&W Shenandoah Line southward on July 2, but trains did not cooperate. We saw very little along the way. We had planned to hammer north on


I-81 on July 5, but Sunday night holiday traffic had the interstate plugged, so we came back via the Shenandoah Line again. Upon reaching the town of Shenandoah we discovered two trains ready to head north. We raced ahead to a location where Link had


shot, Hawksbill Creek in Luray, and set up our night photography strobes. The spot we chose was actually on the opposite side of the N&W bridge from where Link shot, but the rustic iron highway bridge he had included in the foreground has been replaced by a modern concrete structure that we decided to relegate to the background on our shot. Our timing could not have been better


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for the first train, which came across the bridge at twilight behind NS SD70ACe No. 1161 (page 63). The second train, behind SD9043MAC No. 7271 in patched Union Pacific Armour yellow, encountered air brake problems and didn’t get to us for almost two hours. The result was a very late arrival back in New Jersey. Nonetheless, it capped off a very productive (and perhaps last) experience trackside along the “classic” Norfolk & Western. —STEVE BARRY


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