Help for a neophyte ?

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Harry - 

During the period when SR diesels were operating through between Monroe and Bristol, N&W folks found that for some reason or reasons RS-11s would MU better with SR passenger units than anything else.  I've seen several of these consists, and I believe there's a photo of one of them in a book somewhere.

EdKing  
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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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