Virginian AG's taken over by N&W

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N&W did not mothball the AGs; they had been in storage for a number of years from Virginian’s dieselization.  The N&W/VGN merger took place on December 1, 1959 and there were no 1200s in service by then – only Y5, Y6 and S1 classes were left in service totaling about fifty engines being dispatched from Weller, Iaeger and Williamson for branch line and yard service.

Bud Jeffries

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Subject: Virginian AG's taken over by N&W

Members , here is a question from an Englishman

I have read several books on the Virginian RR and Gene Huddlestones book on the H8

My question is  :Why did the N&W mothball the 8 AG's it inherited from the Virginian. It seems to me that those 8 locomotives would have fitted in well with N&W "A" diagrams

Geoff Burton


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