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Dan:
Indeed it was NKP 759 that hauled the last No. 4 to Norfolk and the tender  
was
painted NORFOLK & WESTERN.    N&W had made several conversions to
diesel-powered passenger trains before the RF&P E's and the ACL  "Purple
People-Eaters" were leased.  During a coal strike in the 40's,   Southern 
power
on the Tennessee  trains went through Monroe -  Bristol.  Then on Jan. 1, 
1957,
I was en route back to college riding No. 25 to Roanoke and changing to No.  
45
for Johnson City.  On that date, No. 45 arrived  with Southern diesels.  N&W 
had
arranged to have Southern units protect the Tennessean,  Pelican,  and The
Birmingham Special.
 
 
Seems that before the "red birds" began operating in and  out of Bristol,  The
Tennessean had an engine failure near  Wytheville.  Radford Division's Chief
Dispatcher opted to appropriate the GP-9 assigned to the Pulaski  District
local to assist No. 45 to Bristol.  M/U'ing the Geep to Southern's "F"  unit 
turned
out to be quite a problem.  Every time the engineer depressed the  independent
brake on the GP-9, the Southern unit would sand, but they made it to  Bristol
. . . . . so the story goes.
 
                                                                         
Harry Bundy
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