Last Day of Revenue N&W Steam?

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Just a note here all the info about the last run all comes thru Lloyd Lewis  from a note from SB Noe several weeks after the fact . there’s NO! other documentation no train sheet or any official docs period.  The note from SB is lost forever I tried to secure it from Lloyd before his death he could never find it  (if you know Lloyd you know ) None of the fellows who were going to Williamson every weekend to capture the last of steam where there . And contrary to Ferrells book 2190  was the last road engine  in service returning to Williamson on the first Pigeon , presided by the second Pigeon with the 2154 on the evening of May 5 1960.  And no John Kilgore was not there this is where Ferrell got it all wrong from a caption on a photo 

 

 

Larry Evans 

 

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Ken,

 

Thank you very much for the information. This was exactly what I was looking for.

 

Eli Santin

 

On Thu, Apr 13, 2023 at 3:36 PM NW Mailing List <nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org <mailto:nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org> > wrote:

Eli

This was covered in an extensive article in the Arrow, issue two for 2020, which was the 60th Anniversary by Tim Hensley.

to quote the end of the article:

"And, there has been much conjecture as to what locomotive made the actual last run. Lloyd Lewis mistakenly wrote in an August, 1964 Railroad Magazine story that it was the 2191. This could not have been, as that engine was retired at Bluefield on Feb. 29, 1959! Others among the last road engines used at Williamson were 2123, 2136 and 2154. 

On the morning of May 6, 1960, Y6b 2190 trundled the Pigeon Creek Shifter as far west as Kermit on the last main line run; later that afternoon S1a 291 (her original number of 215 vacated for a diesel) was called to work a second-trick yard job. Crewed by engineer E.H. Richardson and fireman B. J. Wallace, it was in the wee hours of May 7 when they sadly and lovingly eased the little 291 to a coupling with the cooling 2190 in the dead line. There – with a death-rattling hiss and an occasional sigh – N&W steam died softly in the night.”

Best
Ken Miller

> On Apr 13, 2023, at 4:08 PM, NW Mailing List <nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org <mailto:nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org> > wrote:
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> Is there a written record of the very last day a steam locomotive ran on the N&W in regular service? Which locomotives ran to where on that day?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Eli Santin
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