Picture: top of passenger equipment & ends

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The N&W passenger “Redbirds” were regularly used for switching and load deliveries to customers between passenger-schedule assignments. Also, I do recall seeing them on freight trains traveling to Norfolk as the third or fourth unit where they may have been a stand-in for an unavailable freight locomotive as well as a transferring the unit to Lamberts Point for its next passenger assignment.

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Hello – Did the N&W use these red engines in freight service?  When did the red scheme appear and how long did it last?

Carl Barna
Emmaus, PA
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a nice Bob Krone/Tom Sink collection photo from Railpictures.net

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Mike Rector


On Sun, Aug 18, 2024 at 12:35 PM NW Mailing List <nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org<mailto:nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org>> wrote:
Hi Society,

1) I've been looking in the archive for some good color photo references of passenger equipment in the steam era, especially the roof.

I'm weathering some PG (stand ins) after I number them.

Does anyone know some good ones?

2) I see the ends are sometimes painted black, and sometimes so dirty they are black. Does anyone know the story on when the painting started and how often?

Thanks!
David Baker

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