Light J on the Peavine-Engineer with Fedora

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Wed Apr 9 11:22:24 EDT 2014


Greg,

White flags seem somewhat odd on a J and the Fedora speaks of Road Foreman of Engines or some other supervisory person more than a regular engineer. A joy ride isn't what one would expect on a busy and professional railroad like the N&W but it could have actually been. N&W and it's railroaders were devoted to their home steam so I can see something like that happening, however odd or unusual. Makes for a good story that I'd like to believe!

I worked for a major airline for 35 years and when we were retiring our gorgeous MD-80 aircraft some "extra" taxi runs were made with a few of them for a last time experience. Not fully endorsed or authorized and expensive.................but it did happen so who knows?

Roger Huber
Deer Creek Locomotive Works
On Wednesday, April 9, 2014 10:11 AM, NW Mailing List <nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org> wrote:

In the movies I am working on there is a light engine J going East at 
Batavia.
The notes say 602 September 58.  This was obviously after regular 
service steam ended on the Passenger trains.  I was aware of at least 
2 light engine moves WB, where my dad took us to Cincinnati to chase a 
troop train hauled by a J (One being Thanksgiving day).  This one is 
odd since its going EB light,
which one would think meant it had pulled a train west, and was 
running back light to Portsmouth.
  Now where it gets interesting is that the number appears to look 
more like 601 or 611 than 602.  Also I heard a rumor a couple of times 
about some supervisor in Portsmouth wanting to run steam once more, 
and they took a J on a joy-ride to Cincinnati(clare perhaps), and back 
in one day.  This has white
flags on the front, and a flag stuck in the coupler on the 
tender(yellowish).  The shot is on the engineers side, and the 
running board has a lot of chipped paint on the tuscan red stripe, 
especially big chunks out ahead of the engine number.  So my question 
is, what was the status of 602, and 601 at this point...had either 
been retired yet?  Now to heighten the conspiracy theory of the joy 
ride the engineer clearly has a fedora hat, and does not look to be 
wearing engineer garb.

So I am trying to figure out two things here.

(1) What engine could this have been, and

(2) what was the purpose of the run(was it that joy ride, or something 
else).

A cool scene with lots of mystery.

Greg Scholl

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