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African American Wheelrollers/lost film



The Wheelrollers were not Gandydancers (although we do work with a group of
Gandydancers from the C&O RR).  Wheelrollers did acrobatics & tricks with
800-1,000 pound railroad car wheels; they had annual competitions with
wheelrollers from other railroads from 1930 to the late 1950s.  The last
surviving N&W Wheelroller is among our oral history project participants
and he has helped us to enlighten a select public about this lost art form.
 I discovered the fact of the Wheelrollers being filmed through N&W
magazines of the era.  Ideally, we would like to locate one or both films
and obtain permission to make copies to run in our permanent exhibit
"African American Heritage on the N&W, 1930-1970."

Thanks for your help!


Darlene Richardson
Historian & Archivist
Virginia Museum of Transportation, Inc.
303 Norfolk Avenue, SW
Roanoke, VA  24016
(540) 342-5670
Fax: (540) 342-6898

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