Shenandoah Division Steam Locomotives

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 Lois:  No it is NOT 606 the 4-8-4, but 606 the 4-4-2 Atlantic.  The
addition of the ATC rig to the 606 was written up in one of the 1930's
employee magazines- I don't remember which issue.

Gary Rolih


On Wed, Oct 23, 2013 at 1:02 PM, NW Mailing List
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> I noted that one of the road numbers was 606. Could this be class J number

> 606?

> Lois J.Ponton

> N&W steam historian

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> Sent from my Galaxy S®III

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> Date: 10/23/2013 12:55 PM (GMT-05:00)

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

> Subject: RE: Shenandoah Division Steam Locomotives

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> Nathan and Harry,

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>                 Thanks to the late Robert Anderson, we have a complete

> listing of every steam locomotive that operated on the Shenandoah Division from

> approximately 1947 almost to the end of steam. All the records were thrown

> into the turntable pit at Shenandoah as fill, in the early 1960s and Robert

> had the foresight to “pilfer” some, until a thunderstorm ruined the bulk of

> them. These records have been entrusted to me and I have it in my Last Will

> & Testament that when I take a “dirt nap” that they go to the NWHS

> Archives. My real job is kind of hairy right now, and I didn’t want to let

> this out for fear of being overburdened with questions, but I am attaching

> a page from the mid-1950s. You can enlarge it and get a representative

> sample of the road numbers of these locomotives.

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> Mason Cooper

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>  http://nwhs.org/wiki/tiki-browse_image.php?imageId=576

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> Does any one know and/or can send me a list of Steam Locomotives that

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> typically ran the Shenandoah Division, namely the Hagerstown District.

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> Nathan:

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> From 1924, the locomotives assigned to the Shendandoah Division

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> were in captive service more or less. By ICC edict, each major

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> railroad had to have a district equipped with Automatic Train

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> Control(ATC). N&W selected the Shenandoah-Hagerstown district

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> initially, then extended it from Shenandoah to Roanoke.  The

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> engines had to be equipped with cab signals and didn't roam the

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> system. Mason Cooper's book on the Shenandoah Division shows some

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> of the assignments over various periods.  Incidentally, the

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> ATC-equippped K and E class engines assigned to Richmond-Petersburg

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> service wouldn't operate on the Shenandoah Div. because N&W used

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>  Union Switch & Signal and ACL used GRS.      Harry Bundy

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