Engs 547 - 563 - 578

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What   does Bixby's data or any other source say about when and/or where E2b Pacific   # 547 was scrapped?
  
Thanks
  
Dave   Gooding

The archives probably has a source of data equivalent to Bixby's
.  It's the Engine Assignment Ledger -  which was primarily a source for
determining which division a locomotive was assigned to.  But there's
other information there too.  From the 1910s, entries in the ledger
were hand-written.

Eng 547 - orignially assigned to the Shenandoah Div.  Transferred to
                 the Radford Div. 4-16-30. Dismantled at Roanoke 4/27/51

Eng 563 - Retired at Bluefield 12/2/58.
Eng 578 - originally assigned to the Scioto Div.  Retired at Bluefield 12/26/58
                 Donated to Ohio Railway Museum 2-12-59.

Note that the "retired" date may not be the same as the "scrap" date.  The
ledger doesn't list all scrap dates, but it does show firms scrapping some of
the locomotives.  Incidentally, a recent investigation of records indicated
that the VGN people in Norfolk had listed Eng 429 retired,  but two months
after retirement, it was used in emergency service at Princeton, which  meant
the accounting people had to revise all the records, notify the ICC and
advise the folks in Princeton that 429 wasn't to be used in emergencies
without Norfolk's permission.              Harry Bundy 

  
 
  
 
  
  




    






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