1950's N&W Steam excursions

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Gordon Hamilton

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> Gordon -

> What M was it that you had at Durham?

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> E

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> Ed,

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> I'm glad to see you question the use of the term "Mollies" for N&W Class M 

> locos.  It seemed strange to me the first time that I saw it used by a 

> railfan.  We had an M as the yard engine in Durham, NC, during a couple of 

> summers that I worked in the shop there, and I never heard any shop 

> personnel or the crews call it a Mollie.

>

> Gordon Hamilton

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>> Hey Jim -

>>

>> I was around Bristol for the last few years of the small 4-8-0s, and I 

>> never heard anyone refer to them as Mollies.  They were "M"s down there. 

>> Maybe that term applied elsewhere on the railroad, but the only folks I 

>> know of that called them "Mollies" were railfans years after they were 

>> gone . . .

>>

>> EdKing

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>> Subject: 1950's N&W Steam excursions

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>> Does anyone have a list of steam excursions operated by N&W in the

>> 1950's that show the dates, places and locomotives used?

>> I'm currently working on some video with some of these trips but I

>> don't know any details of them.

>> For instance, I have footage of the following trips:

>>

>> A double headed run on the Abingdon branch where part of the train

>> looks to be a work extra and part was the regular mixed with a couple

>> of rider gondolas attached.

>> Actually, the train wasn't a true double header in that the mixed,

>> with it's Mollie, is coupled behind the work train which had a

>> different Mollie on the point.

>>

>> Another excursion with a K1 and also carrying rider gons on the back.

>> I think this one went to or from Bristol.

>>

>> The doubleheaded excursion from Bluefield to Norton with Pacifics.

>>

>> There are possibly others that I will find as I go through this film.

>>

>> Thanks for any assistance.

>>

>> -Jim Herron

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