Turning Big VGN 2-10-10-2s at Roanoke ?

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Not to contradict nor correct anyone, merely an addendum, but VGN also had a wye at Roanoke. They turned passenger train 4 on it to become the next day's number 3, after passenger service was dropped west of there. -Ed Burnett, Lynchburg



> On 04/12/2023 12:53 PM NW Mailing List <nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org> wrote:
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> Abe
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> The AE 2-10-10-2 were turned on the turntables at Princeton, Roanoke and Victoria. All had 120 foot tables available. An 80 foot turntable was replaced with a 130 foot table at Sewalls Point in 1945. Page had a 100 foot turntable. Elmore had a large wye track which could easily handle the locomotive
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> The AE had a wheelbase of 97 feet, and overall couple face dimension of 106 foot eight inches.
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> What was actually larger would be the AG, 2-6-6-6, which had a wheelbase of 112 foot 11 inches. over coupler faces of 125 foot, seven and 7/8 inches, which brings me the question of why was a 130 foot table even considered?
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> Best
> Ken Miller
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> > On Apr 12, 2023, at 12:02 PM, NW Mailing List <nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org> wrote:
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> > I think it is circumspect to ask questions about the VGN on this forum, but if not, just shoot me.  The world has too many Geezers, anyway.
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> > How were the big VGN 2-10-10-2s turned at Roanoke?  I can't recall where there would have been enough room for a wye on the VGN at Roanoke.
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> > And can we expand the question to how those big engines were turned at Norfolk and Victoria?
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> > -- abram burnett
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