N&W office framed wall scenery pictures

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I have several pictures that I believe match the request.  All the ones I
have, I had reframed if they were in frames.  But my recollection is that
most were not in frames when I got them.

1) The picture with 2173 as mentioned. On the one I have I don't see the
"Fuel Satisfaction" wording, but it may be covered up by the matting. 24 x
16 inches

2) One with a passenger train behind a "J" in much the same setting as the
2173 picture.  Both look to me like they are somewhere on the New River in
Virginia.  It also appears to be hand colored. About the same size as number
one.

3) 18 x 13 inches a picture with "N&W Precision Transportation Crossing the
Potomac River Near Shepherdstown W. Va" as the title.  It shows an
articulated steam engine with an auxiliary tender pulling a freight train
with several box cars, one coal car and a gondola across the river at
Shepherdstown.  Close is correct, as Shepherdstown is of course at the end
of the bridge.  This appears to be a photo print type picture, and it looks
like at least the engine has some retouching to make the lettering stand
our.  Both tenders have "Norfolk and Western" spelled out in white with
large letters, the engine number on the other hand can not be read at all.

4) 24 x 17 inches titled "A Norfolk and Western Coal Train In West Virginia"
which shows the caboose and back end of a coal train going through a narrow
valley on a triple track section on the right side of a smaller river or
creek.  You can also see what look like the concrete supports for catenary
poles, but no poles or wire.  In the distance there is what looks like a
railroad bridge bringing a track across the stream to the main line and past
that what appears to be a coal tipple on the right side of the valley.  On
the right above the track is a cut that looks like a road or perhaps a mine
high wall.  Sometime in the past someone told me this picture was taken west
of Bluefield, perhaps near Yeager.

5) 17 x 12 inches picture with no title which shows a long freight train
traveling along a river that looks like the New River.  An articulated N&W
steam engine is pulling what look like several yellow reefers followed by a
large number of boxcars.  The train stretches back through an "S" curve and
into what looks like a cut in a small hill along the river.  The view into
the picture is from the other side of the river and in the lower right is a
farmer on a tractor cutting hay.  It looks more like artwork that a photo.

6) 21 x 15 inches picture of three diesel engines in blue with the half moon
herald pulling a long train of trailers on flat cars lead engine is 1905.
It is coming out of a curve with what looks like a bunch of grain silos in
the background with hills further behind.  Train is on the second of four
tracks and the picture has a mid-west feel to me for some reason, probably
because a lot for orange and yellow are used and most of the scene looks
very flat. It is an artist's work very evidently from the nearby trees to
the left of the tracks.


Bob Huston

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I don't have a full list, but I'm sure one of the pictures in question is 
entitled "A Norfolk and Western Train Load of "Fuel Satisfaction" In 
Virginia" featuring Y6b numer 2173 is one of them.  It shows double track 
along a river bank, and I would guess that it is hand tinted.  This one came

from an office in southern Ohio, perhaps Portmouth.

Marty Flick

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> June 22, 2008

>

> The N&W created framed pictures for offices and stations. Some made the 

> locomotive and train the central subject.  In others, a train is visible 

> in the corner of the foreground or background at a distance, with a 

> sweeping view of landscape as the subject.  Many started out as black and 

> white enlargements that are hand-tinted.

>

> Has anyone collected or compiled a list of these pictures, or are these in



> the N&W Archives collection?  I am wondering if there is a list of views 

> that has identified locations or given names to these pictures.

>

> Thank you,

>

> Frank Scheer

> f_scheer at yahoo.com

>

>

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