New moderate power steam?

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Wed Nov 17 23:19:48 EST 2004


K-1 114 pulled the last-steam powered freight on the Shenandoah route to 
Hagerstown. M-2 (?) 1119 was doing switching at Waynesboro at that point.

Jeff Cornelius

nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org wrote:
> Regarding the Class K in local freight service -- Lamberts Point 
> regulary furnished
> engine 110 for a Petersburg Turn.  The Ks may have been somewhat 
> cumbersome for
> locals,  but were restricted only at industrial sidings and connections 
>  in Suffolk and Petersburg.  Suffolk and Petersburg, of course, had 
> 0-8-0's assigned for switching service.  Later, Class Js were furnished 
> for the Petersburg Turn and even worked the spur to Gray Lumber at 
> Waverly, previously restricted to Class A, J, and Mallet engines.  
> Forever etched
> in memory -- Eng 600 returning from Petersburg with the local on the 
> 52-mile tangent Poe - Kilby.  In tow was a scale test car, which 
> restricted the speed to 30 MPH -- a far cry from the days of hustling 
> No. 26 to Norfolk at whatever. 
>                                                             Harry Bundy
> 
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