500 Series Pacific's scrapping

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According to Prince, 547 was "Dism." 4-1951

Jim Nichols
 

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What  does Bixby's data or any other source say about when and/or where E2b Pacific  # 547 was scrapped? 

>Thanks 

>Dave  Gooding 

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>D.J. Joseph  Company in Cincinnati cut up locomotives for the  N&W 

>563 could have been your loco. but  Bixby's data says Scraped  Roanoke 12/58 

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>Larry Evans 

>Kenova, WV

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>>According to my father's notes, 563 was retired 12-58. I have no other  information, so don't know where the scrapper was; but most engines that  went west ended up at Friedmans Scrap Yard in Portsmouth. Why one would go  west through Batavia is a mystery. BTW: 563 and 578 were the last ones (by a  long shot). 

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>>Jim Nichols

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>>Subject: 500  Series Pacific's scrapping

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>>Between 1958-60 how many N&W pacifics 

    would have been left to scrap.

>>We have a movie clip of one coming through 

    Batavia headed west, presumably to scrap.

>>However, 578 went to 

    Columbus.  As I recall back in 1957 we rode that trip from Bluefield 
    with

>>563 and 578, so I was wondering if those were the last two and 

    perhaps the one we saw was 563?

>>Does anyone know where these pacifics 

    were in fact scrapped, and did 578 travel on the Peavine(unlikely)?

>>Greg 

    Scholl

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