N&W Blue

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The SD-40's were delivered in blue prior to the SD-45's. I have a Vanishing 
 Vista's postcard in an old photo album upstairs. The card would have had 
the  photo date but it has been in that old album so long it would not lift 
off the  page.
 
Thanks,
 
Richard D. Shell
Troutville, VA
 
 
In a message dated 3/17/2011 6:45:03 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time,  
nw-modeling-list at nwhs.org writes:

 
Begging your pardon, Harold, but the SD35's were delivered in black. As  
were the first C628"s. Maybe you are remembering the SD45's. They were  
delivered in blue (but not in 1965).      Jim  Nichols


 
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To: NW Modeling List  <nw-modeling-list at nwhs.org>
Sent: Wed, March 16, 2011 10:55:12  AM
Subject: Re: N&W  Blue

Bill: I have to disagree with you on this one. The day  Mr. Fishwick 
returned to Roanoke as President of the N&W he told  Dick Dunlap to " Get rid of 
that damn Wabash Blue".  
The  N&W-C&O merger plan had nothing to do with the N&W blue  period. When 
I first worked for the N&W in the summer of 1965  N&W was receiving SD35s in 
Blue. I rode two brand new SD35s from  Roanoke to Norfolk on #84 along with 
an EMD rep. The engineer was  concerned that we had too much tonnage to be 
able to hold the train to  the correct speed while decending the grade east 
of Huddleston on the  VGN. We had no problem and the SD 35s performed very 
well.    Harold 
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