1950's N&W Steam excursions

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"Lashup" goes way back to Extra 2200 South and Dan and Don Dover!!

Walter Gay
waltrail1 at verizon.net



On Sep 9, 2013, at 5:07 PM, NW Mailing List wrote:


> Good for you, Jim.  The use of the term “mollie” sounds to me like one of those terms used by railfans to appear more “hip”,  like referring to a consist of diesels as a “lashup”.  That one makes my rump want to chew tobacco . . .

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> Best -

>  

> Ed

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> In Bluefield, my father always called them "M"s. Don't know who called them "Mollies," but I am aware of an axiom: if anyone ever puts wrong information in print, that is the information that get's quoted (without attribution) forever. Which is why I do my best to identify errors, even when some people take it personally.

> Jim

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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 . . .

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> EdKing

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> Subject: 1950's N&W Steam excursions

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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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