NW-Modeling-List Digest, Vol 16, Issue 12

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Andy - Auville Yard at Iaeger sounds like a good prototype situation for where your fictional situation of a classification yard where a mine branch joins a
mainline.  There certainly are people who could speak to it better than me, but depending on the time in 1959 you'd have had either Y5/Y6/Y6a/Y6b or like Mark said the GP9 and RS11.  So even in N scale you'd be in good shape for available models.  If you went back a couple of years you could use the Life-Like Y3 too (or Z1b but there's no good N scale model), but I believe they were all gone by some time in 1958.  I doubt if any diesel or 0-8-0 yard switcher type was ever used there in that capacity.  I've seen either films or photos of the aforementioned at Auville in that time frame.  Good luck with your project.

A. P. Robinson, Jr.


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> > Hi,

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> > I am modelling an N Scale N&W mine shifter /

> > classification yard at a

> > fictitious location where a mine branch joins a

> > mainline, set 1959.  Does

> > anyone know which locomotive would typically be used

> > as yard switcher in

> > this type of yard.  Given the lack of N&W yard

> > switcher models I would like

> > to use a either a road switcher or an old steam

> > locomotive, could I get

> > away with this?

> > 

> > Thanks

> > 

> > Andy Thornton

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> FWIW, I never saw a "switcher" on the N&W Pocahontas

> division for the time I was watching trains (growing

> up) let's say 1965-1975.

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> N&W used mostly GP9s and RS11s for this purpose. I

> understand that N&W used S1 0-8-0s in the yard in

> Williamson in the time period you mention.

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> HTH

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> Mark Peele

> Catonsville, MD

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