Class M No. 475 Diamond Jubilee Service

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I can barely remember a juilee of some type in Radford ('53, '54) and someone told me recently of a 'decorated' N&W engine there. 475 or another 'M'?
Charlie Long

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>abram - 

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>She was dolled up earlier than that.  She came to Bristol's Centennial celebration in 1956 in that guise.  She also was the lead engine in the tripleheaded train they ran on the Blacksburg Branch for one of the VPI games, but I don't know the date.  She was filmed doing that duty.  Whether she ran after she was put back in civvies after that, I don't know.

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>Ed King

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>  The 475 was dolled up cosmetically for Roanoke's Diamond Jubilee in 1957 (... wasn't it '57?)  She received brass  bands around the boiler lagging and cylinders, a replica oil headlight, a dummy load of wood atop the coal pile, jazzed-up cast number plates on the cab, a wooden slat-type pilot and (glory be ! ) a link and pin coupler.

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>  Is it known whether the engine was put back into revenue service after her week or so of Cinderella status?  And what happened to the good stuff, like the oil headlight and the link and pin coupler?

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>  -- abram burnett

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