Farewell to Steam on the N&W

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Sat Jul 5 17:06:21 EDT 2008


I would be very curious to see some sort of locomotives/ton mile or
locos/track mile then versus now. It still seems like an absurdly low
number.

Out of curiosity, what did the N&W system look like in 1958? are there
any maps that one might be able to view easily?

NW Mailing List wrote:

>

> I think that was 268 diesels in addition to what they already had.

> Anyway, the Norfolk Southern system today is much, much larger than the

> N&W in 1958. (It didn't even include the Virginian then, much less the

> NKP, Wabash, etc.) Jim Nichols


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Salisbury, NC


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