Hand tinted N&W photo

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 John: My father started recording the numbers and builders plates of locomotives he saw when he was still a teenager. This was a hobby he taught me and I followed it until sometime in the early 1960's. For whatever reason, I did away with my own notebook; but I still have his (which has a lot more information). He was a charter member of the R&LHS, and I guess that it was sometime in the 1920's that he started working on an all-time roster of N&W locomotives (steam and electric). Don't know all his correcpondents, but I know that Fisher (R&LHS) was an important one. The only other name I remember was R.B.Carneal of Durham, NC.He didn't always agree with Carneal. Anyway, Dad's roster was the original difinitive work on N&W steam and electric, and Prince gave him credit in his N&W book. After diesels arrived, Dad kept putting numbers in his notebook, but I don't think he was interested in assembling a diesel roster.
He had gone to work for the N&W at Kenova when he was 18 years old. He eventually rose to be Chief Clerk to the Assistant Superintendent Maintenance of Way on the Pocahontas Division. The legend was that you could name any two mileposts on the Pocahontas Division, and he would (off the top of his head) tell you the weight of rail that was there and the year itr was installed.  His dream was to get his 50 year pin, but they forced him to retire at 65. He died in 1969 when he was 73. BTW: His younger brother Sidney held a similar job on the Scioto Division at Portsmouth. 
Jim Nichols
    On Sunday, December 20, 2020, 03:25:37 PM CST, NW Mailing List <nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org> wrote:  
 
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Thanks Jim. I appreciate your post re passenger operations as well. And your eye-witness recollections.

  

I also really appreciate your dad’s work every time I turn to a NW steam loco roster to look up information.  Have you ever written about why, when and how he compiled all this info? His sources?    Best,  John Garner

  

From: NW Mailing List [mailto:nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org] 
Sent: Saturday, December 19, 2020 8:55 PM
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Subject: Re: Hand tinted N&W photo

  

John: I can give some pre-1964 information on passenger operations on the Radford and Pocahontas divisions, having lived in sight of the Bluefield station from 1946 to roughly 1958 and living in Narrows from 1959 to 1964.

  

Jim Nichols

  

On Saturday, December 19, 2020, 06:02:45 PM CST, NW Mailing List <nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org> wrote: 

  

  

Rick, I appreciate you sharing your knowledge of N&W passenger equipment, consist, and operations on this list. I always read your post with interest. How long have you been studying details of N&W’s passenger operations? Have you studied all pre-1964 divisions?    John Garner

 

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Sent: Saturday, December 19, 2020 11:24 AM
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Subject: Hand tinted N&W photo

 

When the posting about the hand tinted photo by Bruce Fales at Shaffers Crossing appeared, I remembered my photo.  I bought this 11x14 print from Fales at a Gaithersburg railroadiana show about 1980.  N&W's presence in Hagerstown is significant because I was born there and have strong family RR connections with the WM.  I did grow up in sight of the N&W, so I have collected a lot of N&W images at Hagerstown.  This one of train 13 was dated August 31, 1947.  Notice Fales name heat stamped into the print just below the locomotive.  In his lifetime, he probably never dreamed how easy it would be to edit it out.

 

--Rick Morrison

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