N&W and Southern Thru passenger service

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The quick answer is that the Southern Diesels were kept on the SOU trains as
run-through power in the early 1950's and later when it became apparent that
the diesels were quite reliable and switching out the Diesels  for N&W steam
(Or N&W Diesels) was an unnecessary expense for both railroads.   The
Southern also considered keeping the Diesels on as 'modern' advertising for
their trains and was concerned for SOU's  image.  Gordon Hamilton wrote
about this in detail in The ARROW magazine in the Vol.  20 No. 5 issue "N&W
Steam vs. Southern Diesel: the Costs Compared".

 

Gary Rolih

INFO at N&WHS

 

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I took the following question from the Southern Group and am asking if
anyone could explain further?





I've noticed that several of Southern and Norfolk and Western's joint trains
like the Birmingham Special and Tennesean often had Southern power on the
N&W portion of the route after the N&W became 100% diesel, was this normal
and did all trains do this and does anyone have any info on why N&W's
passenger GP9's were not used instead?

 

James Wall

Rural Hall, NC

 

 

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