NW-Mailing-List Digest, Vol 180, Issue 14

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Thanks for all of the replies! I will say that Dad's memories from Coalwood
(not far from Iaeger David Ray) was that NW used a double header bringing
in and taking out about 100 cars per day. He said that the big locomotives
weren't big enough to get that many cars to Coalwood so 2 of the medium
locomotives were used.

Tom Fulton

On Thu, Dec 12, 2019 at 8:14 AM NW Mailing List <nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org>
wrote:

> Branch line locomotives
>
> I wasn't there but branch line locomotives in the coal fields would have
> consisted primarily, if not exclusively, with the biggest power available,
> Y's of all kinds and Z1's where assigned I suppose.  The exception to that
> would have been where G1's "6 and 7 served into the 'fifties on seasonal
> cattle extras between Bluefield and Honaker, Virginia over a line marked by
> several spindly timber trestles".  Quoted from Norfolk and Western Steam
> (The Last 25 Years).
>
> It is my impression that the M's were relegated to the light duty branches
> like Abington Branch and the Creeper to Blacksburg.  I grew up in
> Harrisonburg where the Chesapeake Western had used 4 M's before they bought
> the Baldwin diesels.  Growing up among little 4 axle power, I thought
> "switchers" were the norm on branches off the mainline.  That mistaken
> understanding was shaken when I went to work for the NW and was sent to
> Wilcoe and Auville as 3rd trick yardmaster in 1978.  We had the biggest
> power on the railroad.  One particularly telling day I got a call from
> Jenkin Jones asking for delivery of 60 shortloads to their cleaning plant.
> We had them in the yard, the 3rd Tug was given the loads and up the
> mountain they went.  The next day I was told in no uncertain terms to never
> do that again.  The three SD units assigned to the 3rd Tug had to double, I
> suppose tripple, the hill 25 cars at a time to get that train up the
> mountain.  The lightest power we had used 3 GP units going up to Premier
> and Majestic Kentucky from Auville.  Someone else can speak to what steam
> power was used on those branches.
>
> David Ray
>
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>> Hi folks,
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>> What locomotives were used on the branch lines in the 40's and 50's? In
>> particular I'm looking at the coal haulers in Pocahontas Division. I think
>> that the Class E2a's were used and perhaps some version of the Class M's.
>> Are these right? And are their others?
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>> Thanks,
>> Tom Fulton
>> Asheville, NC
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