N&W Diesels; DM&IR

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How was their performance compared to the usual 4 axle EMD's and ALCO's?

-Evan Miller

> On May 20, 2017, at 9:35 AM, NW Mailing List <nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org> wrote:
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> Bill -
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> The DM&IR lease covered six Alco 2400 HP six axle jobs and four SD9s.  They were mainly used on the Scioto Division where I was working at the time.  Over a period of time I got to run all of them.  When they came to Portsmouth they were extremely clean.  Their use in the iron ore country had gotten them some interesting characteristics; they had six-cylinder air compressors which were fun to listen to when they were working. 
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> Somewhere I have slides of several of them.
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> Ed King
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> For what it's worth, I photographed a DM&IR Alco in Roanoke in 1959. (Yikes!) They were leased for a period, but I have never read for how long or how many.
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> Bill
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> Bill McClure
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