Fwd: Re: WSS 2-8-2 Mikado

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The several postings about the WSS and its Mikado engines has awakened 
some memories that I have about both.  In June and July 1954 I was 
employed as a laborer on the N&W's weed spray train (I was the 
"short-boom" operator on the righthand side.  With the long-boom 
operator behind me I had a clear view forward of signals, bridges, 
tunnels, stations, etc. east of Williamson, WV.)  One day we sprayed the 
entire WSS from Winston-Salem to Wadesboro, NC.  About my only 
recollection from that trip was the lack of interesting terrain such as 
we had on most of the more mountainous N&W that we had sprayed up until 
that point, except I do remember an interesting large lake along the 
WSS.  I finished up that summer as a laborer in the N&W locomotive shop 
in Durham, NC.

Then during the summer of 1955 I worked as a laborer in the locomotive 
shop at Winston Salem where the WSS locomotives were serviced and 
maintained.  I don't remember much about the WSS Mikes because back then 
they were just another locomotive in the daily parade that needed to be 
coaled, watered and lubricated.

Gordon Hamilton



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Date: 	Thu, 9 Apr 2020 12:10:38 -0400
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Thanks Brian.  I found this on Youtube.  More WSSB whistle sounds, N&W 
Y6a and K2, Southern and others. Ghosts from the past.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4OzQN9M4pcg
--Rick Morrison

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    Great pictures, Roger! Interestingly while they look like an N&W
    engine they didn't sound like one, keeping what I assume is the ACL
    whistle.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tO7ETFx64Do

    Brian Dembinski
    Amherst, Oh

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