NW-Mailing-List Digest, Vol 107, Issue 19

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When did Trains 5 and 6 acquire the use of auxiliary tenders (see p. 101,
Norfolk & Western in the Appalachians)? Was it due to the elimination of
watering facilities on the Clinch Valley line?

 

And what was typically the motive power on 5 and 6 between January and April
1959 after 563 and 578 were retired? Any 1959 photos of 5 & 6 other than
those of the final run?

 

John Garner

Newport, VA.

 

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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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