Farewell to Steam on the N&W

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I believe the problem was that replacement parts were no longer 
manufactured at least that was what I was told at the time, along 
with PRR pressure.

                               HB Lyon


At 07:50 PM 7/6/2008, you wrote:

>On Sun, Jul 6, 2008 at 6:02 PM, Mike Weeks wrote:

> > I've often wondered how Stuart Saunders really felt about steam 

> locomotives.

> > Obviously he wanted to "modernize" the N&W, but did he actually despise

> > steam power, or was he just impatient to get the N&W dieselized ASAP to

> > catch up with the rest of the country?

>

>It would take a little digging through several boxes to find the 

>various indexes

>to "Trains" magazine, but I seem to remember an article about this issue.

>William Middleton (perhaps?) speculated that the fast dieselization of the

>N&W was at the insistence of the Pennsylvania Railroad. The push was to

>increase the value of N&W stock before the PRR unloaded its shares in

>an effort to improve its cash flow.

>

>If someone remembers this article or perhaps can expand on this idea,

>please have at it.

>

>Bruce in Blacksburg

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