SD45's

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I don't recall what color. I thought it was blue but very well have been black w/ NW. I've got slides somewhere!
Charlie Long

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>From: NW Mailing List <nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org>

>Sent: Sep 23, 2008 11:47 AM

>To: NW Mailing List <nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org>

>Subject: RE: SD45's

>

>Back to Black I assume!

>

>Mark Peele

>Catonsville, MD

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>--- On Mon, 9/22/08, NW Mailing List <nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org> wrote:

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>> From: NW Mailing List <nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org>

>> Subject: RE: SD45's

>> To: "NW Mailing List" <nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org>

>> Date: Monday, September 22, 2008, 3:38 PM

>> Sadly, it sat in the dead line at Roanoke, then Radford for

>> several months. It had been repainted back to blue by then.

>> Charlie Long

>> 

>> -----Original Message-----

>> >From: NW Mailing List <nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org>

>> >Sent: Sep 22, 2008 10:24 AM

>> >To: 'NW Mailing List'

>> <nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org>

>> >Subject: RE: SD45's

>> >

>> >I shot slides of 1776 as she was being washed/cleaned

>> for repainting at Shaffer's Crossing from the parking

>> lot.  If I recall there was lot of peeled off paint.  Not a

>> very pretty sight.

>> >

>> >Ed Painter - Giles Co. VA currently Russellville, AR  

>> -   eMail - painteea at westinghouse.com

>> >

>> >From: nw-mailing-list-bounces at nwhs.org

>> [mailto:nw-mailing-list-bounces at nwhs.org] On Behalf Of NW

>> Mailing List

>> >Sent: Monday, September 22, 2008 9:01 AM

>> >To: 'NW Mailing List'

>> >Subject: RE: SD45's

>> >

>> >Richard:  I believe I have a b/w negative of her before

>> the application of the 1776 scheme.  And I have a darkroom

>> of my own.  Contact me at

>> rolih at nwhs.org<mailto:rolih at nwhs.org>.

>> >Gary Rolih

>> >Secretary N&WHS

>> >

>> >

>> >________________________________

>> >From: nw-mailing-list-bounces at nwhs.org

>> [mailto:nw-mailing-list-bounces at nwhs.org] On Behalf Of NW

>> Mailing List

>> >Sent: Saturday, September 13, 2008 9:04 AM

>> >To: nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org

>> >Subject: Re: SD45's

>> >

>> >The downfall of the SD-45's was fuel consumption

>> and the cranks actually broke taking cylinders and all kinds

>> of broken parts into the oil pan.

>> >

>> >N&W had a total of 115 of these locomotives. All

>> were built with high hoods but 1728 ended up with a low hood

>> after an accident. The original 1730 was destroyed when she

>> fell off a bridge in a derailment in West Virginia. No. 1733

>> was later renumbered 1730 to make room for the River Street

>> Rambler which was also 1733 when N&W and Southern

>> merged.

>> >

>> >It took me five years but I eventually photographed

>> every one of them.

>> >

>> >I am still looking for a photo/slide of 1776 in her

>> original blue scheme if anyone has one.

>> >

>> >Thanks,

>> >

>> >Richard D. Shell

>> >

>> >

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