EXTERNAL: E-units - Southern practice

Tue Apr 9 21:13:43 EDT 2019

As to E8A's in freight service on the RF&P -

When I was attending Randolph-Macon College (more accurately partying too
much during) during 1970 -72, I became serious about taking railroad
pictures.  (The RF&P went through the campus).  E-8s' were regularly in
freight service.  I found a shot I did from 1972 with an old Kodak 35mm
camera and High Speed Ektachrome film.  Its coming southbound through
downtown Ashland, VA -  E8A 1007 leading either a GP35 or GP40 with an FP7A
trailing.  A pretty darn poor quality shot but one you'll never get again.

Ed Painter: member #70, from Narrows, VA living in Cohutta, GA

On Tue, Apr 9, 2019 at 4:28 PM NW Modeling List via NW-Modeling-List <
nw-modeling-list at nwhs.org> wrote:

> Cool pics, Jim.  Thanks for sharing!
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> -Eric Bott
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> Southern did this … usually an E-7 or E-8 and either F-3a or FP-7.  Fairly
> common practice in the ‘60s.  Attached is a pic of an E-7 with FP-7 in 1966
> (I think Train 42 was the northbound Pelican) and a pic of another
> northbound at Bristol about to hand off to the N&W.  The 2nd unit is an
> F-7.  I also have a pic of the Crescent in Mississippi with 3 E-8s and an
> FP-7 as 2nd unit.
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> Didn’t RF&P run E-8s in freight service lashups on an irregular basis?
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> Jim King
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> Jack is currently doing an “E and F Combo” project, for RR’s that ran
> E-Units and F-Units together regularly.  Maybe if RF&P used this practice,
> he would include them in his thinking.
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> Can anybody document such practice?
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> -Eric Bott
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> A few years ago, Jack Vansworth at the Division Point was considering
> importing a series of E-8A diesels in brass.  I asked him about the
> possibility of importing the RF&P leased version in two road numbers.  He
> replied that if he "probably" went ahead with the E-8A project that he
> would "probably" do the leased RF&Ps.  That was several years ago and don't
> even know if the E-8A project is still on Jack's agenda.
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> Bill King
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> The N&W E-units in ACL and/or RF&P colors were very poor sellers. The
> society had a hard time getting rid of them.
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> Stephen Rineair
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> Is there any chance the Society could re-issue the N&W E-units in ACL
> and/or RF&P colors using Walthers models in HO? There seemed to be popular
> and I'm sure others would like them too.
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> Roger Huber
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