Last Day of Revenue N&W Steam?

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Eli, this photo from the Archives may be of interest.  We get a glimpse
into the Williamson roundhouse engine lineup just two weeks earlier. This
picture is of the Williamson ready board on April 21, 1960.  There is also
a picture from Dec 1959, as well.


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Mike Rector

On Thu, Apr 13, 2023 at 4:48 PM NW Mailing List <nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org>
wrote:

> Ken,
>
> Thank you very much for the information. This was exactly what I was
> looking for.
>
> Eli Santin
>
> On Thu, Apr 13, 2023 at 3:36 PM NW Mailing List <nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org>
> wrote:
>
>> Eli
>>
>> This was covered in an extensive article in the Arrow, issue two for
>> 2020, which was the 60th Anniversary by Tim Hensley.
>>
>> to quote the end of the article:
>>
>> "And, there has been much conjecture as to what locomotive made the
>> actual last run. Lloyd Lewis mistakenly wrote in an August, 1964 Railroad
>> Magazine story that it was the 2191. This could not have been, as that
>> engine was retired at Bluefield on Feb. 29, 1959! Others among the last
>> road engines used at Williamson were 2123, 2136 and 2154.
>>
>> On the morning of May 6, 1960, Y6b 2190 trundled the Pigeon Creek Shifter
>> as far west as Kermit on the last main line run; later that afternoon S1a
>> 291 (her original number of 215 vacated for a diesel) was called to work a
>> second-trick yard job. Crewed by engineer E.H. Richardson and fireman B. J.
>> Wallace, it was in the wee hours of May 7 when they sadly and lovingly
>> eased the little 291 to a coupling with the cooling 2190 in the dead line.
>> There – with a death-rattling hiss and an occasional sigh – N&W steam died
>> softly in the night.”
>>
>> Best
>> Ken Miller
>>
>> > On Apr 13, 2023, at 4:08 PM, NW Mailing List <nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org>
>> wrote:
>> >
>> > Is there a written record of the very last day a steam locomotive ran
>> on the N&W in regular service? Which locomotives ran to where on that day?
>> >
>> > Thanks,
>> >
>> > Eli Santin
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