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  Do you remember what the freight consist was that would require so much motive power? Was it mostly overhead traffic to be interchanged or mostly destined to N&W served customers?  
Probably interchange traffic -- coal to D&S and Southern, and nothing to Norfolk Southern Rwy, which hadonly 60# rail on the Durham Branch.   The real killer was the tonnage ratings southbound out of Lynchburg.From 1954 Norfolk Div. Time Table #7,  a Y-3 or Y-4 could handle only 1490 tons Island Yard to 12th Street(there was a 2.62% climb from Durham Junction to 12th Street).  That calculates out so that one Y-3 or Y-4could, for example. only handle 20 loaded 50 ton hoppers (50 tons for the load and 24 tons for the tareweight of the hopper).  Twelfth Street to Naruna, the rating was 2250 tons and Naruna to Durham 2800 tons.                                                                                       Harry Bundy
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