Picture: top of passenger equipment & ends

Mon Aug 19 13:39:02 EDT 2024

Does anyone on this list model the line into Hagerstown?

Carl Barna
Emmaus, PA
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Re Lone Star: The September 1959 issue of the N&W Magazine has an article on the Lone Star Cement Corp operation.  Several photos show passenger GP9’s in pairs on the branch. One photo shows two trains, both with passenger GP9’s, meeting at the main line switch at Cloverdale. So it looks like four units to handle two trains daily for the branch.

As for GP9’s on trains 1 and 2, it was always one unit on those trains. However after the end of mixed trains 13-14, N&W continued a local freight Hagerstown-Shenandoah on the same schedule with a new red GP9 which otherwise would have laid over 24 hours in Hagerstown. That train also had a box express car for REA three days a week north of Shenandoah. Mail and express service ended when N&W dropped 1 and 2 north of Waynesboro in 1962. I wish I was old enough to have had a camera to record everything I remember.

--Rick Morrison

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Carl,

To my knowledge, only on the daylight Lone Star Shifter, which served a cement plant off a short branch of the Shenandoah Valley Line, just north of Roanoke.  I suspect this was to utilize dead time between Trains 1 and 2, which ran mostly during the night.  Others may have further insight.

Tim Hensley

On Monday, August 19, 2024 at 07:25:21 AM EDT, NW Mailing List <nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org> wrote:

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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