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| 5 members of the Railroad Museum Board took a trip to visit the Virginia Museum of Transportation and Norfolk Southern Locomotive shop in Roanoke, VA. |
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| Members of the Board and volunteers, including some from the Habitat for Humanity, got together to clean the outer premises of the old Armour Building. |
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| The Railroad Museum held a model train show during the Hatfield - McCoy Reunion in June of 2001. The model show proved to be a real success |
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| Clayborne Dotson was the winner of the Williamson Area Railroad Museum Logo contest. He received a prize of $100.00 for his talented artwork. |
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| Judge Micheal Thornsbury and Bill Davis, director of the work relief program, volunteer the work crew from the Regional jail to complete the remodeling needed at the former King's Restaurant locationin downtown Wililamson, WV. (Now a temporary location for the museum.) |
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| Judge Thornsbury, Margaret Conner, and Bill Davis |
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| On July 10, 2002 railroad cars, which were donated by the City of Williamson, were moved by The Mingo County Redevelopment Authority to the future site of the Railroad Museum located in the old Armour Building. |
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| The Museum Board commisioned local artist, Clayborne Dotson, to paint a special drawing as a fund raiser for the museum. The painting shows several different trains, as well as the Williamson Roundhouse, and the Boderland Coal Tipple. There are 500 limited edition prints signed by Mr. Dotson. A limited number are still available for purchase. The price is $125.00 and may be purchased by calling Linda or Doyle VanMeter at (304)235-0811. Proceeds go to the building fund for the new Museum. |
| STORY FROM WILLIAMSON DAILY NEWS 9-18-02 BY CHARLOTTE SANDERS - SENIOR WRITER. A 20 foot modular layout of the East Williamson Railroad Yard and a related area in the Goody, Kentucky section is being assembled by the creator in the lobby of the First National Bank. Vernon French, of Bushkill, PA. and Staten Island, NY, arrived in Williamson Sunday and is staying at the Sycamoer Inn while putting together the many sections and components of the spectacular layout. He volunteered to resassemble the layout and came here through cooperation of the WDN and the Museum Board. He expects to be here for the remainder of the week. Raymond Scites, President of the FNB, agreed to have the layout displayed in the bank lobby. Some very important pieces of the layout are missing, having been borrowed in the past 10 years since French donated the $11,000 display to the people of Williamson. "If anyone knows the whereabouts of, a Y6B locomotive that was in the original display, it would be great for this item to be brought to me at the FNB as soon as possible", French said. A section crucial to the layout is a long extension of the Pond Creek railroad bridge and the armature for the moutnain structure in the display. These are missing and French requests they be returned to him at the bank. |
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