N&W Diesels; DM&IR

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Sun May 21 09:37:18 EDT 2017


Good stuff to know. Thanks to everyone for posting. Makes interesting
modeling info too if you're modeling that era.
Charlie Long

On Sat, May 20, 2017 at 7:37 AM, NW Mailing List via NW-Mailing-List <
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> DMIR would commonly lease out part of it's locomotive fleet in the winter.
> All the Great Lakes ore lines did it for that matter. When the Lakes were
> frozen over in the winter and ore boats weren't hauling ore they would
> lease out power to more southern railroads who needed it.
> N&W had the DMIR RSD15s and SD9s on multiple separate occasions.
> Clinchfield had DMIR SD9s multiple times.
> DTI had LSI U25Cs several times.
> Those are just off the top of my head.
>
> Josh Blevins
> Charlotte NC
>
> On Sat, May 20, 2017 at 7:13 AM, NW Mailing List
> <nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org> wrote:
> For what it's worth, I photographed a DM&IR Alco in Roanoke in 1959.
> (Yikes!) They were leased for a period, but I have never read for how long
> or how many.
>
> Bill
>
>
> *Bill McClure*
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