1950's N&W Steam excursions

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Ed,

I'm glad to see you question the use of the term "Mollies" for N&W Class M 
locos.  It seemed strange to me the first time that I saw it used by a 
railfan.  We had an M as the yard engine in Durham, NC, during a couple of 
summers that I worked in the shop there, and I never heard any shop 
personnel or the crews call it a Mollie.

Gordon Hamilton

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> Hey Jim -

>

> I was around Bristol for the last few years of the small 4-8-0s, and I 

> never heard anyone refer to them as Mollies.  They were "M"s down there. 

> Maybe that term applied elsewhere on the railroad, but the only folks I 

> know of that called them "Mollies" were railfans years after they were 

> gone . . .

>

> EdKing

>

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> Does anyone have a list of steam excursions operated by N&W in the

> 1950's that show the dates, places and locomotives used?

> I'm currently working on some video with some of these trips but I

> don't know any details of them.

> For instance, I have footage of the following trips:

>

> A double headed run on the Abingdon branch where part of the train

> looks to be a work extra and part was the regular mixed with a couple

> of rider gondolas attached.

> Actually, the train wasn't a true double header in that the mixed,

> with it's Mollie, is coupled behind the work train which had a

> different Mollie on the point.

>

> Another excursion with a K1 and also carrying rider gons on the back.

> I think this one went to or from Bristol.

>

> The doubleheaded excursion from Bluefield to Norton with Pacifics.

>

> There are possibly others that I will find as I go through this film.

>

> Thanks for any assistance.

>

> -Jim Herron

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