Norfolk Question: Passenger Engines

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Abe

The locomotives were serviced and turned at Lamberts Point.

I don’t have exact knowledge of the next question, but based on this clip of an article in the N&W Magazine, January 1953, entitled “A Ride on the 601” I’d say they had hostlers bring power to the station, since as I recall it was a stub track, and the train was taken through the car washer.

… Past Gilmerton, and the new electric power plant, past the fertilizer factories and into South Norfolk goes the train, at reduced speed now. It is darker, and the lights in the train show up in a long row behind when the engine takes the curve off Bridge No. 5. Slowly now the train edges along the platform where wives and mothers and fathers look eagerly into the car windows. No. 601 closes almost to the final end of the track, seems to sigh, then almost re­laxes; Mr. Roberts and Mr. May climb down.  ….

The story is a cab ride from Roanoke to Norfolk, beginning at Shaffers Crossing.

Best
Ken Miller

> On Oct 12, 2020, at 8:57 PM, NW Mailing List <nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org> wrote:
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> In Norfolk, where were N&W  passenger engines turned and serviced?
> 
> At Lambert's Point  ... ?
> 
> Were the fresh engines brought to the passenger station by an Hostler, or did the engine crews report to the Round House and bring their own engines to the station?
> 
> -- abram burnett,
> T-Patch, Pennsylvania
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