N&WHS' Ken Miller to Speak This Tuesday in Roanoke!

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Shameless plug here, I'm trying to build a crowd for Ken's talk in Roanoke
next week. It will be a great time - so please join us!
-Stephen Warren, Roanoke
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*The Kegley Lecture Series returns in September!*

At the beginning of January 1955, the Norfolk and Western proudly
proclaimed on note pads that it was “Operated 100% by coal-burning steam
locomotives.” The Norfolk and Western had operated for almost 80 years
using its primary commodity as its main power source, up to and including
building and designing its own locomotives in Roanoke.

By May, 1955, to free up some larger steam power to fit needs elsewhere on
the railroad, the N&W ordered its first diesel locomotive to handle traffic
on the lightly trafficked line between Lynchburg and Durham, N.C. By May
10, 1960, the very few steam locomotives, holed out in the hard-scrabble
landscape of coal country in southern West Virginia, were replaced with
diesels.

*The Kegley Lecture Series* resumes as author and historian Ken Miller
discusses how Norfolk & Western went from 100 percent steam to 100 percent
diesel in less than 5 years.

Join us Tuesday, September 24 at 7pm at Christ Lutheran Church. Admission
is $5 (Free for HSWV members).

(Note: This church is diagonal across from Patrick Henry High School at the
intersection of Grandin and Brandon.)
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