NW-Mailing-List Digest, Vol 180, Issue 14

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Sorry, I should have included dates. Dad graduated from Big Creek High
School in 1947 so those memories would be from the 30's and 40's.

Tom Fulton

On Thu, Dec 12, 2019 at 9:36 AM Tom Fulton <tfulton42 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Thanks for all of the replies! I will say that Dad's memories from
> Coalwood (not far from Iaeger David Ray) was that NW used a double header
> bringing in and taking out about 100 cars per day. He said that the big
> locomotives weren't big enough to get that many cars to Coalwood so 2 of
> the medium locomotives were used.
>
> Tom Fulton
>
> On Thu, Dec 12, 2019 at 8:14 AM NW Mailing List <nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org>
> wrote:
>
>> Branch line locomotives
>>
>> I wasn't there but branch line locomotives in the coal fields would have
>> consisted primarily, if not exclusively, with the biggest power available,
>> Y's of all kinds and Z1's where assigned I suppose.  The exception to that
>> would have been where G1's "6 and 7 served into the 'fifties on seasonal
>> cattle extras between Bluefield and Honaker, Virginia over a line marked by
>> several spindly timber trestles".  Quoted from Norfolk and Western Steam
>> (The Last 25 Years).
>>
>> It is my impression that the M's were relegated to the light duty
>> branches like Abington Branch and the Creeper to Blacksburg.  I grew up in
>> Harrisonburg where the Chesapeake Western had used 4 M's before they bought
>> the Baldwin diesels.  Growing up among little 4 axle power, I thought
>> "switchers" were the norm on branches off the mainline.  That mistaken
>> understanding was shaken when I went to work for the NW and was sent to
>> Wilcoe and Auville as 3rd trick yardmaster in 1978.  We had the biggest
>> power on the railroad.  One particularly telling day I got a call from
>> Jenkin Jones asking for delivery of 60 shortloads to their cleaning plant.
>> We had them in the yard, the 3rd Tug was given the loads and up the
>> mountain they went.  The next day I was told in no uncertain terms to never
>> do that again.  The three SD units assigned to the 3rd Tug had to double, I
>> suppose tripple, the hill 25 cars at a time to get that train up the
>> mountain.  The lightest power we had used 3 GP units going up to Premier
>> and Majestic Kentucky from Auville.  Someone else can speak to what steam
>> power was used on those branches.
>>
>> David Ray
>>
>> On Thu, Dec 12, 2019 at 1:41 AM <nw-mailing-list-request at nwhs.org> wrote:
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>>> Date: Wed, 11 Dec 2019 16:31:39 -0500
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>>> Hi folks,
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>>> What locomotives were used on the branch lines in the 40's and 50's? In
>>> particular I'm looking at the coal haulers in Pocahontas Division. I
>>> think
>>> that the Class E2a's were used and perhaps some version of the Class M's.
>>> Are these right? And are their others?
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Tom Fulton
>>> Asheville, NC
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