N&W excursions of the 1950s
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The November 1956 issue of the N&W Magazine covers an excursion operated in
connection with the B&O between Washington and Shenandoah, via Charles Town
southbound and via Shenandoah Junction northbound. The article includes a
picture of the train at Front Royal, handled by K-1 114.
In connection with the 1957 NRHS Convention, on September 1 Class A 1239
handled an excursion train from Roanoke to Bluefield. From there K-1 114
handled the train to Pocahontas, thence via the Bluestone Branch to Matoaka,
W. Va., where it was turned over to the Virginian for the trip back to
Roanoke. The train consisted of 15 carts, including three open gondolas.
I don't have any records of steam-powered excursions on the Abingdon Branch
in the 1950's, but that doesn't mean that there were none.
Louis Newton
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> No. Tazewell County.
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> Pounding Mill is an unincorporated community in Tazewell County,
> Virginia,
> United States. _Wikipedia_
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> _Elevation_
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> The Obit lists he was born in Pounding Mill, Virginia, in 1928. Is that
> the Pounding Mill Run or Creek community then next to Covington,
> Virginia?
> Al Kresse
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> I'm surprised nothing has been said about the 611 excursions. I personally
> would like dates and info on those excursions, for a book I am writing
> about that locomotive.
> Lois J.Ponton
> N&W steam historian
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> Dear Mr. Newton:
> Thanks for the info about '50s special movements re: Jim Herron's query.
> Any other info out there? I've seen lotsa photos of excursions on the
> Abingdon branch and elsewhere behind steam and wondered when those trips
> occurred? Somebody out there has to know! :)
> I have a photo somewhere of the Abingdon branch excursion Jim mentioned
> that apparently took a work train along for the ride. There's a neat story
> there somewheres methinks.
> Let's see who'll respond first.
> Also, Mr. Herron, when you're editing that video, please let the shots run
> long enough so that us amateur historians can see the train at length. I
> always hate it when a shot cuts away right as things get interesting.
> IMHO, this ain't an MTV-era herky-jerky shot crowd you're marketing to.
> But I could be wrong! And the photogs may also have turned off the film
> after the engine passed too, I admit.
> Thanks
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> Andre Jackson
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> According to my records, on May 4, 1957 a railfan excursion was run on the
> Clinch Valley District, sponsored by the Baltimore Chapter (as I recall)
> of
> the NRHS.
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> The group was handled in regular trains Nos. 5 and 6, with their usual
> consists plus two extra coaches, a Pullman, a diner, and an open gondola
> (10
> cars total), double-headed by E-2a's 578 and 563.
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> I plan to cover the operation of this train in a future article in "The
> Arrow."
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>> A quick google comes up with this:
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>> http://www.steamlocomotive.com/mastodon/?page=nw
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>> I have no idea who Steve Llanso is, but in this article he claims the
>> crews called them ?Mollies?
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>> As I understand it, steam locomotive wheel arrangements were given
>> generic
>> names; just as 2-8-2's were Mikados, but referred to as "Mikes," I
>> believe
>> the 4-8-0 wheel arrangement was named Mastodon and referred to as
>> "Mollies."? I have heard this term applied to this wheel arrangement many
>> times but railfans, authors, etc.
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>> There is no doubt however, that on the N&W, they were simply referred to
>> as M's.
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>> Jim Brewer
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>> Good for you, Jim.? The use of the term ?mollie? sounds to me like one of
>> those terms used by railfans to appear more ?hip?,? like referring to a
>> consist of diesels as a ?lashup?.? That one makes my rump want to chew
>> tobacco . . .
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>> Best -
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>> Ed
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>> In Bluefield, my father always called them "M"s. Don't know who called
>> them "Mollies," but I am aware of an axiom: if anyone ever puts wrong
>> information in print, that is the information that get's quoted (without
>> attribution) forever. Which is why I do my best to identify errors, even
>> when some people take it personally.
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>> Jim
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>> Hey Jim -
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>> 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 . . .
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>> 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.
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>>
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>> Another excursion with a K1 and also carrying rider gons on the back.
>> I think this one went to or from Bristol.
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>> The doubleheaded excursion from Bluefield to Norton with Pacifics.
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>> There are possibly others that I will find as I go through this film.
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>> Thanks for any assistance.
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>> Jim Cochran:
>>> In the first case (Figure 1) the blue train is eastbound ( to the right)
>>> and there is no other traffic.? The route is lined for him to hold the
>>> main
>>> through the interlocking.? Are the aspects shown correctly?
>>
>> Yes.
>>
>>> If there is a train on the siding as shown in Figure 2, does it have any
>>> effect on the signal aspects?? My assumption is that it does not.? Let
>>> me
>>> know.
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>> Correct, no change in signal aspects.
>>
>>
>> Joe Shaw
>> Christiansburg, VA
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>> Subject: 4-8-0s? (WAS: Class M's, Mollies, class names and the like)
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>> I believe that the SP was the other principal user of 4-8-0s in later
>> days, not the UP (I don't remember seeing a pic of a UP 4-8-0).? They
>> ended up on the Oregon branch lines of the SP and lasted til quite late
>> in
>> the day.? I think that the most popular "type name" for the 4-8-0 was
>> "Twelve -Wheeler";? all the SP locos were in the "TW" classes, from the
>> days when SP class designations were generally based on prevailing type
>> names.
>>
>> BTW, 4-8-0s were very common on British colonial 42" gauge lines - South
>> Africa, Australia, New Zealand, etc.? Lots of these are living on in
>> preservation.
>>
>> pete groom
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>> On Sep 10, 2013, at 11:35 AM, NW Mailing List <nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org>
>> wrote:
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>>> Gentlemen:
>>>
>>> This a great discussion and when Jim added into the mix about the 2-8-2
>>> wheel arrangement, I felt it was time to toss my hat into this ring.
>>>
>>> The various wheel arrangements while somewhat generic named were also
>>> given the better known ones for very specific reasons:
>>>
>>> The 2-8-0's were called Consolidations simply because the first order or
>>> large order was from a recent consolidation of railroad companies way
>>> back when .. the late 1860's or 1870's or so.
>>>
>>> The 2-8-2's were called Mikado's because the first order went to the
>>> Japanese Mikado I think it was in 1897.
>>>
>>> The first iconic order for the 4-6-2's went to MoPac, Missouri Pacific
>>> which named them Pacific type, I believe around 1904.
>>>
>>> The what became ever-popular Mountain named 4-8-2 went to the C&O for
>>> their mountain divisions in the coalfields and they named it
>>> accordingly.
>>>
>>> As for the 4-8-0's, not many roads had this wheel arrangement, with UP I
>>> think and the N&W being the primary users and it received the name
>>> Mastodon from who knows -- I've never read that one. They were always
>>> Class "M's" as Ed and Jim have reminded us and that probably the
>>> nickname
>>> Mollie probably got added later by parties now lost to history.
>>> The N&W's famous Class J -- what did the N&W call those: Northern or
>>> Class J? Same animal but local name. Kind of like trolley -- they were
>>> called trams, streetcars (both one and two words), along with a few
>>> other
>>> things as well as local names as well.
>>>
>>> Other wheel arrangements had been named similarly to the earlier ones
>>> mentioned.
>>>
>>> Even the little used 2-4-2 type got a name "Columbia" I am told came
>>> from
>>> its having been displayed at the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago
>>> in 1892-1893. Of course this small hauler was quickly over-shadowed by
>>> larger power which rapidly eclipsed these little types.
>>>
>>> The 2-8-4's were named Berkshires as the Boston & Albany I think got the
>>> first, those from Lima and their new Super-Power concept which really
>>> took off. That was 1923-1925 or thereabouts.
>>>
>>> The 2-10--0's were called Decapods for their 10 drivers and some
>>> specific
>>> ones which had been designated or ordered by the Russian Govt and never
>>> delivered to the after WW1 Bolshevik's, became Russian Decapods.
>>>
>>> The 4-8-4's were first ordered by NP and became Northern's for most
>>> roads
>>> but they did have other names as well, Lackawanna called theirs Poconos,
>>> C&O called theirs Greenbriars and a number of others had names for
>>> theirs
>>> as well. The NC&StL couldn't call theirs after any northern company or
>>> name or anything from Yankee land, so theirs became something else more
>>> fitting to their Southern traditions.
>>>
>>> I had never heard of the L&N's "Big Emma's" being called anything other
>>> than that but I grew up with David P. Morgan and he called them that and
>>> not the M1's as referred within these fine pages so perhaps DPM was a
>>> bit
>>> guilt of that little change to historical reference.
>>>
>>> The 4-10-2's were called the SP type as they were the predominate user
>>> of
>>> that little used wheel arrangement, never minding their 3rd cylinder.
>>>
>>> The 4-12-2 was similarly called the UP type for the same reason as the
>>> SP, only the UP had that one, also with an inside 3rd cylinder.
>>>
>>> As NYC was the initial order-er for the 4-6-4 type, no surprise what
>>> these were named for us romantics -- the Hudson type. Oh, what a shame
>>> one of the Central's 4-6-4's was saved for us to ruminate over. However
>>> that is for another day.
>>>
>>> The 4-6-0's I have always seen called "ten-wheel" types.
>>>
>>> And I suspect the first 2-10-2's went to the AT&SF although can't recall
>>> details. The 2-10-4's were an outgrowth of the 2-10-2's as something
>>> larger was required for a specific type of work load.
>>>
>>> One last one -- 2-8-8-4 -- the first order for those went to was it NP
>>> or
>>> GN which needed this big hauler for out near the Yellowstone region and
>>> so with their humongous firebox to burn that stuff they had on their
>>> road
>>> which wasn't a whole lot better than improvised dirt (aka-lignite), the
>>> first of these went there, along with their name. Somewhere I saw a
>>> surmising that perhaps these would have been more powerful than the
>>> Allegheny or Big Boy's if they had put good grade coal in one, but alas,
>>> that answer awaits us all in that great roundhouse in the sky, someday.
>>>
>>> Bob Cohen
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> Aubrey,
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> I used to vacation in Roanoke with my grandparents from 1956-1969. During
> that time I would hang around the station and, with permission from Mr.
> White the Stationmaster, usually would ride the station switcher. During
> those years I can remember riding with different engineers adding and
> removing cars from the various passenger trains and?I can remember at
> least a few of them would say "here comes train 4 with them Redbirds on
> the front" and things similar to that. I remember other railroaders
> working the station area calling them Redbirds. I always figured it was a
> "standard N&W" name for them and not just something railfans bestowed on
> the gorgeous GP-9s. These guys were calling them that way before I ever
> saw the railfan or modeling magazines use the term. One of the highlights
> of my Roanoke Summers was getting a ride?in the cab of the 516/518 duo at
> they slipped down the west yard area to clear the head end for the
> switcher to remove some mail cars
> and the engineer letting me run her.
> ?
> Roger Huber
> Deer Creek Locomotive Works
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> Subject: Engine nicknames -? formerly Re: 1950's N&W Steam excursions
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> Do any of you other old guys remember hearing N&W's passenger Geep's
> called a nickname during their time on N&W passenger trains?? "Red Birds"
> was new to me when I started hearing?it and reading it a couple decades
> ago.?
> Aubrey Wiley
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> You are invited to? visit these blogs:
> VIRGINIAN RAILWAY Heritage Trail:
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> From: NW Mailing List <nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org>
> Subject: Re: Class M's, Mollies, class names and the like
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> Hello,
> ? For what it's worth, a few years ago I met a lady who father was an
> engineer out of Crewe, Va in the 1930's through the 1950's. And when we
> began to talk one of the first things she said was, "My daddy ran those
> Big Maroon and Black 600 class. Of course I new which locomotive she
> meant. Thought that was a neat conversation.
>
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> On Sep 10, 2013, at 7:27 PM, "NW Mailing List" <nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org>
> wrote:
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>> There are a couple of items here I want to comment about, but ambition is
>> failing today.? Hopefully, tommorrow morning will be better.? Bob Cohen
>> mentioned that the nicknames for the 4-8-0 wheel arrangement was not
>> necessarily "Mastodon".? He's right.? For generations, it was always
>> 12-wheeler, in the same manner that a 4-6-0 was a 10-wheeler.? The name
>> Mastodon was used (at least for a long time) for an SP 4-10-0 name El
>> Gobernador.? Internet speed of misinformation changed all that.? More on
>> that next day hence.? Even dedicated rivet-counters (and i-dotters and
>> t-crossers) run out of steam occasionally.
>>
>> Dave Stephenson
>>
>>
>> From: NW Mailing List <nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org>
>> To: nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org
>> Sent: Tuesday, September 10, 2013 2:35 PM
>> Subject: Class M's, Mollies, class names and the like
>>
>> Gentlemen:
>>
>> This a great discussion and when Jim added into the mix about the 2-8-2
>> wheel arrangement, I felt it was time to toss my hat into this ring.
>>
>> The various wheel arrangements while somewhat generic named were also
>> given the better known ones for very specific reasons:
>>
>> The 2-8-0's were called Consolidations simply because the first order or
>> large order was from a recent consolidation of railroad companies way
>> back when .. the late 1860's or 1870's or so.
>>
>> The 2-8-2's were called Mikado's because the first order went to the
>> Japanese Mikado I think it was in 1897.
>>
>> The first iconic order for the 4-6-2's went to MoPac, Missouri Pacific
>> which named them Pacific type, I believe around 1904.
>>
>> The what became ever-popular Mountain named 4-8-2 went to the C&O for
>> their mountain divisions in the coalfields and they named it accordingly.
>>
>> As for the 4-8-0's, not many roads had this wheel arrangement, with UP I
>> think and the N&W being the primary users and it received the name
>> Mastodon from who knows -- I've never read that one. They were always
>> Class "M's" as Ed and Jim have reminded us and that probably the nickname
>> Mollie probably got added later by parties now lost to history.
>>
>> The N&W's famous Class J -- what did the N&W call those: Northern or
>> Class J? Same animal but local name. Kind of like trolley -- they were
>> called trams, streetcars (both one and two words), along with a few other
>> things as well as local names as well.
>>
>> Other wheel arrangements had been named similarly to the earlier ones
>> mentioned.
>>
>> Even the little used 2-4-2 type got a name "Columbia" I am told came from
>> its having been displayed at the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago
>> in 1892-1893. Of course this small hauler was quickly over-shadowed by
>> larger power which rapidly eclipsed these little types.
>>
>> The 2-8-4's were named Berkshires as the Boston & Albany I think got the
>> first, those from Lima and their new Super-Power concept which really
>> took off. That was 1923-1925 or thereabouts.
>>
>> The 2-10--0's were called Decapods for their 10 drivers and some specific
>> ones which had been designated or ordered by the Russian Govt and never
>> delivered to the after WW1 Bolshevik's, became Russian Decapods.
>>
>> The 4-8-4's were first ordered by NP and became Northern's for most roads
>> but they did have other names as well, Lackawanna called theirs Poconos,
>> C&O called theirs Greenbriars and a number of others had names for theirs
>> as well. The NC&StL couldn't call theirs after any northern company or
>> name or anything from Yankee land, so theirs became something else more
>> fitting to their Southern traditions.
>>
>> I had never heard of the L&N's "Big Emma's" being called anything other
>> than that but I grew up with David P. Morgan and he called them that and
>> not the M1's as referred within these fine pages so perhaps DPM was a bit
>> guilt of that little change to historical reference.
>>
>> The 4-10-2's were called the SP type as they were the predominate user of
>> that little used wheel arrangement, never minding their 3rd cylinder.
>>
>> The 4-12-2 was similarly called the UP type for the same reason as the
>> SP, only the UP had that one, also with an inside 3rd cylinder.
>>
>> As NYC was the initial order-er for the 4-6-4 type, no surprise what
>> these were named for us romantics -- the Hudson type. Oh, what a shame
>> one of the Central's 4-6-4's was saved for us to ruminate over. However
>> that is for another day.
>>
>> The 4-6-0's I have always seen called "ten-wheel" types.
>>
>> And I suspect the first 2-10-2's went to the AT&SF although can't recall
>> details. The 2-10-4's were an outgrowth of the 2-10-2's as something
>> larger was required for a specific type of work load.
>>
>> One last one -- 2-8-8-4 -- the first order for those went to was it NP or
>> GN which needed this big hauler for out near the Yellowstone region and
>> so with their humongous firebox to burn that stuff they had on their road
>> which wasn't a whole lot better than improvised dirt (aka-lignite), the
>> first of these went there, along with their name. Somewhere I saw a
>> surmising that perhaps these would have been more powerful than the
>> Allegheny or Big Boy's if they had put good grade coal in one, but alas,
>> that answer awaits us all in that great roundhouse in the sky, someday.
>>
>> Bob Cohen
>>
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