Shenandoah Division Steam Locomotives

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I am not certain about that. If the page posted was indeed from the mid-1950's, then it is of question. I thought all the 4-4-2's were scrapped by 1941, and certainly the N&W would not have two locomotives with the same road number.
Lois J.Ponton
N&W steam historian



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Date: 10/23/2013  3:56 PM  (GMT-05:00) 
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Subject: Re: Shenandoah Division Steam Locomotives 
 
 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 <nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org> wrote:
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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Subject: RE: Shenandoah Division Steam Locomotives 


Nathan and Harry,

                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.

 

Mason Cooper

 

 

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Does any one know and/or can send me a list of Steam Locomotives that 
typically ran the Shenandoah Division, namely the Hagerstown District.
Nathan:
From 1924, the locomotives assigned to the Shendandoah Division
were in captive service more or less. By ICC edict, each major
railroad had to have a district equipped with Automatic Train
Control(ATC). N&W selected the Shenandoah-Hagerstown district
initially, then extended it from Shenandoah to Roanoke.  The
engines had to be equipped with cab signals and didn't roam the
system. Mason Cooper's book on the Shenandoah Division shows some
of the assignments over various periods.  Incidentally, the
ATC-equippped K and E class engines assigned to Richmond-Petersburg
service wouldn't operate on the Shenandoah Div. because N&W used
 Union Switch & Signal and ACL used GRS.      Harry Bundy

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