500 Series Pacific's scrapping

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Jim,

A couple of points here.  The large ledger that your father kept at MP states that the 547 was dismanthled at Roanoke 1951, while the 563 and 578 were RETIRED at Bluefield in December 1958.  These two E-2s were the only one's left after 1955.  As was common practice when steam was being retired for dieselization, the ledger lists where the engine was retired but not where scrapped.  In Prince's book, he lists many locomotives that were sold for scrapping and the name of the scrapper.  But the largest number were either scrapped at Roanoke or Portsmouth in the company shops.  The 563 is not listed as being sold to a scrapper by Prince.

For all who are conjecturing about the 563 being scrapped in Cincinnati, I would caution those to rely on documentation to confirm that.  It is very possible that the 563 was scrapped in Portsmouth unless adequate documentaiton shows definitively otherwise.

Bud Jeffries
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  According to Prince, 547 was "Dism." 4-1951


  Jim Nichols

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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


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    D.J. Joseph  Company in Cincinnati cut up locomotives for the N&W
    563 could have been your loco. but  Bixby's data says Scraped Roanoke 12/58


    Larry Evans
    Kenova, WV

    "There's the sun, there's the moon, there's the air we breathe, and 
    there's the Rolling Stones"  Keith Richards

    On Apr 7, 2014, at 7:14 PM, NW Mailing List <nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org> wrote:


      According to my father's notes, 563 was retired 12-58. I have no other information, so don't know where the scrapper was; but most engines that went west ended up at Friedmans Scrap Yard in Portsmouth. Why one would go west through Batavia is a mystery. BTW: 563 and 578 were the last ones (by a long shot).


      Jim Nichols

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      Between 1958-60 how many N&W pacifics would have been left to scrap.
      We have a movie clip of one coming through Batavia headed west, presumably to scrap.
      However, 578 went to Columbus.  As I recall back in 1957 we rode that trip from Bluefield with
      563 and 578, so I was wondering if those were the last two and perhaps the one we saw was 563?
      Does anyone know where these pacifics were in fact scrapped, and did 578 travel on the Peavine(unlikely)?
      Greg Scholl



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