SD45's

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Back to Black I assume!

Mark Peele
Catonsville, MD


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N&W in N scale


--- On Mon, 9/22/08, NW Mailing List <nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org> wrote:


> From: NW Mailing List <nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org>

> Subject: RE: SD45's

> To: "NW Mailing List" <nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org>

> Date: Monday, September 22, 2008, 3:38 PM

> Sadly, it sat in the dead line at Roanoke, then Radford for

> several months. It had been repainted back to blue by then.

> Charlie Long

> 

> -----Original Message-----

> >From: NW Mailing List <nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org>

> >Sent: Sep 22, 2008 10:24 AM

> >To: 'NW Mailing List'

> <nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org>

> >Subject: RE: SD45's

> >

> >I shot slides of 1776 as she was being washed/cleaned

> for repainting at Shaffer's Crossing from the parking

> lot.  If I recall there was lot of peeled off paint.  Not a

> very pretty sight.

> >

> >Ed Painter - Giles Co. VA currently Russellville, AR  

> -   eMail - painteea at westinghouse.com

> >

> >From: nw-mailing-list-bounces at nwhs.org

> [mailto:nw-mailing-list-bounces at nwhs.org] On Behalf Of NW

> Mailing List

> >Sent: Monday, September 22, 2008 9:01 AM

> >To: 'NW Mailing List'

> >Subject: RE: SD45's

> >

> >Richard:  I believe I have a b/w negative of her before

> the application of the 1776 scheme.  And I have a darkroom

> of my own.  Contact me at

> rolih at nwhs.org<mailto:rolih at nwhs.org>.

> >Gary Rolih

> >Secretary N&WHS

> >

> >

> >________________________________

> >From: nw-mailing-list-bounces at nwhs.org

> [mailto:nw-mailing-list-bounces at nwhs.org] On Behalf Of NW

> Mailing List

> >Sent: Saturday, September 13, 2008 9:04 AM

> >To: nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org

> >Subject: Re: SD45's

> >

> >The downfall of the SD-45's was fuel consumption

> and the cranks actually broke taking cylinders and all kinds

> of broken parts into the oil pan.

> >

> >N&W had a total of 115 of these locomotives. All

> were built with high hoods but 1728 ended up with a low hood

> after an accident. The original 1730 was destroyed when she

> fell off a bridge in a derailment in West Virginia. No. 1733

> was later renumbered 1730 to make room for the River Street

> Rambler which was also 1733 when N&W and Southern

> merged.

> >

> >It took me five years but I eventually photographed

> every one of them.

> >

> >I am still looking for a photo/slide of 1776 in her

> original blue scheme if anyone has one.

> >

> >Thanks,

> >

> >Richard D. Shell

> >

> >

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