Help for a neophyte ?

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This is really pushing my memory (I was 4 at the time) but wasn't the
1218 (not under steam) double-headed with  NKP 759 for the last run
of The Pocahontas?
Toney Minter

NW Modeling List wrote:

> One correction - the last Pocahontas in 1971 was not handled by the 611.  It

> was handled by NKP Berkshire 759.

>

> EdKing

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>   Well, we have heard the why, and at least partially, the when. As the

> earlier writer stated the first N&W GP9s were delivered in 1955. However

> according to William Warden's N&W Passenger Service book as revised by

> Kenneth Miller; steam continued on passenger trains into 1958. The last

> steam powered "Pocahontas" operated on June 18, 1958. This of course

> discounts the very last "Pocahontas" on the day before Amtrak in 1971; which

> was powered by the 611. At any rate N&W had passenger equipped GP9s on

> order, but in their hurry to eliminate steam on the remaining passenger

> service; they leased E type passenger diesels from ACL (Atlantic Coast Line)

> and RF&P (Richmond, Fredericksburg and Potomac) in the summer of 1958. These

> locomotives were lettered "Norfolk and Western" but retained the purple and

> silver or blue and grey respectively of their owners. Apparentally the N&W

> Geeps started coming on line in the fall of 1958 and were in the (dare I

> say) "tuscan red" with yellow stripes and lettering known as the "Redbird"

> scheme. Hope that gives you a better handle on what you needed to know. Dan

>

>   Dan and Nina Mulhearn; Pipestem WV

>   dannina1 at earthlink.net

>   Why Wait? Move to EarthLink.

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