Norfolk Question: Passenger Engines

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On Tue, Oct 13, 2020 at 12:14 AM Abram wrote:

In Norfolk, where were N&W  passenger engines turned and serviced?
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> At Lambert's Point  ... ?
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Related to this, how were engines turned? Turntable? If so, when was it
removed? On its inaugural excursion from Roanoke to Norfolk, J 611 was to
be turned on the balloon track around Lambert's Point. However, it didn't
make it because the radius had been tightened over the years so the rigid
set of drivers no longer "fit" in the curvature. The excursion returned
behind diesels and the J was hauled backwards to Roanoke in a separate move.

Bruce in Blacksburg
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