N&W office framed wall scenery pictures

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If I remember right, J. D. Kanode of the Photo Lab did a lot of the coloring 
of those photos with Q-tips.  I watched him do it, one day . . .

Ed King
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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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