Last Steam Locomotive on the Shenandoah

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The following item was printed in the February 22, 2007, issue of the 
Page News and Courier (Luray, Virginia):

50 YEARS AGO: Last steam locomotive

The last steam locomotive to run over the Shenandoah Division of the 
Norfolk and Western furnished the motive power on Wednesday morning of 
this week to pull train No. 1 from Hagerstown to Roanoke. The engineer 
was S.E. Basore and the fireman was L.G. Fox. The locomotive No. was 129.

G.W. Strum, yard superintendent at Shenandoah, said this week that the 
Shenandoah facilities were being geared for diesels. At present the 
machine shop is being dismantled as diesels will be serviced at Roanoke. 
All machinery is being shipped away or sold. The force at Shenandoah  is 
being materially reduced, although all men being displaced are being 
transferred and reassigned to new positions.

There are about 40 diesels in use on this division at this time, Mr. 
Strum said.

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Bernie Hylton

"Let it snow...let it snow...let it snow!"