Classic Calendar faux pas?

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Sat Dec 8 08:45:37 EST 2007


Don't know about the engine, Mark (except that it wouldn't have been an N&W one) but the Atlantic Coast Line didn't go to Alexandria. That crossing was the Richmond, Fredericksburg and Potomac going over the Southern main line. The ACL didn't get any closer to Alexandria than Richmond. The C&O came into Alexandria over the Southern from Charlottesville. The ACL and SAL trains came in over the RF&P.

Ed King
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OK History Buffs! When I was very young, We lived in Alexandria, just 1/5 mile from the crossing of Southern tracks and Atlantic Coast Line tracks(CSX,ATL, Seaboard??). I believe it was spring of 58, but possibly '59. Mid morining. Mom was cleaning the 2nd floor windows and called me to see a STEAM ENGINE coming north into Alexandria. I missed actually seeing the engine, but saw the smoke rising from the trees. As a Steam engine was by that time an unusual event, I was wondering If anybody had any idea what engine it was? It almost HAD to be a Norfolk and Western K or J, and pulling one of the Southern trains.




Mark Lindsey






On Dec 7, 2007, at 9:05 AM, NW Mailing List wrote:


I might not have paid any attention to this if I hadn't have read it in a review of the N&WHS Calendar's in "Model Railroad News". The review noted and gave an example that "the calendar featured historic dates in the railroads history alongside national holidays."
The example given was for Feb.20, "1957: Class K2a 129 pulls the last steam powered train 2 from Hagerstown to Roanoke." I raised an eyebrow! Could MRN be right about this? Surely MRN made a typo.
Now, with my interest piqued and being the good "Valley" boy that I am, I turned my "Classic Calendar" to February 2008. Scrolling down twenty days to when George was born, I find that gadzooks! It does say that "...the last steam powered train 2 from Hagerstown to Roanoke"!
Oh well! What can I say? Only that the Classic Calendar is...
#1
with me!
Jimmy Lisle
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