N&W office framed wall scenery pictures

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Is there access to these prints to be purchased today. I 'm a nut for prints 
like these.

Oakie G. Ford
IRONTON, OH



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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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>> Subject: N&W office framed wall scenery pictures

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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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