RE Scrap Metal Value of N&W Big Steam (NW Mailing List)

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Jack

I don't have exact dates on anything like the scrapping. It was usually a
several day process, and depending on how quickly the scrappers needed to
clear their line based on more arriving. Sometime they would simply cut the
top half of the boiler out, then back in line for later, sometimes all the
way down.

In the book "Three Times a Lady" page 31, you will see several John
Killoran photos of scrapping at M.D. Friendman in Portsmouth, Ohio, one
identified by the chalked number and intact number boards is 601 in
Portsmouth, which I think was identified as August 5, 1959. The 601 and 613
were both officially retired on March 27, 1959 at Portsmouth, Ohio.

I'll try and find some prices the railroad received from scrapping
locomotives.

Ken Miller

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On Jun 5, 2017, at 6:02 PM, NW Mailing List via NW-Mailing-List wrote:

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> Do you know the time frame the 601 and 613 were scrapped?
>
> Jack
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> To follow up on what Ken Miller said, my father used to mention to us
> that the average engine went for around $5K.  We saw a lot of them
> headed to scrap here in Batavia, as they headed to Cincinnati (2
> scrapyards on the west side).  We saw just about everything come
> through here, except maybe a J.  I know 601 and 613 were torched at
> Portsmouth.  Perhaps one that Ken mentioned getting weighed was one of
> those two engines.  They were about the last J's to work out of
> there.  "N&W In Transition" is a video we did a couple of years ago,
> and it has a good selection of dead engines headed to scrap being
> towed on the local to Clare.  I was a kid back then, but remember
> seeing a lot of 2-8-8-2's among K class, S class, and even some Class
> A engines like 1232, which happened to be on the last time freight
> from Clare(Steam) in 1956.  It finished out in Portsmouth when
> everything was dieselized on the west end.
> Greg Scholl
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