QUOTE: Originally posted by nanaimo73 Did the N&W and the PRR do a lot of interchange at Hagerstown, Maryland during the 1950s and 1960s, and was there a lot of through traffic on the Shenandoah line between Roanoke and Hagerstown ?
QUOTE: Originally posted by beaulieu QUOTE: Originally posted by ericmanke Thanks for the info. I found the dispositions of the 2 GP18s I was researching. Now for question #2. What is that white line that I've seen under the road# on many N&W units? I've seen it on Geeps, RSs, C420s, but I cannot figure out what it means. Any help guys? Eric It means that the locomotive does not have Alignment Control Couplers.
QUOTE: Originally posted by ericmanke Thanks for the info. I found the dispositions of the 2 GP18s I was researching. Now for question #2. What is that white line that I've seen under the road# on many N&W units? I've seen it on Geeps, RSs, C420s, but I cannot figure out what it means. Any help guys? Eric
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QUOTE: Originally posted by beaulieu QUOTE: Originally posted by ericmanke Question for you N&W peeps. Do any of you know when the N&W started disposing its Geeps? Or I guess when they were placed in storage? I'm having trouble trying to find the dispositions of GP18s. I know a few of them went to Carolina Southern. Did NS use these as trade in fodder, or were they just simply retired and scrapped. Any info would be appreciated. Eric Several of the GP18s went to the OTVR, Otter Tail Valley Railroad in Minnesota. If you aren't already may I suggest that you join the LocoNotes yahoogroup, the home for wayward builder number collectors.
QUOTE: Originally posted by ericmanke Question for you N&W peeps. Do any of you know when the N&W started disposing its Geeps? Or I guess when they were placed in storage? I'm having trouble trying to find the dispositions of GP18s. I know a few of them went to Carolina Southern. Did NS use these as trade in fodder, or were they just simply retired and scrapped. Any info would be appreciated. Eric
QUOTE: Originally posted by Murphy Siding With N&W being famous for retaining steam for so long, were they good at preserving some of their locomotives for future generations?
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QUOTE: Originally posted by piouslion QUOTE: Originally posted by Murphy Siding Did coal from different on-line mines have different steaming(is that the word?) qualities, so that a locomotive designer @N&W had to have a certain mine in mind, when building a locomotive? Murph< If I didn't know better I'd say you either read a good article in Trains a few years ago about utility coal or you work for an electric generating company or its Ilk. ---PL
QUOTE: Originally posted by Murphy Siding Did coal from different on-line mines have different steaming(is that the word?) qualities, so that a locomotive designer @N&W had to have a certain mine in mind, when building a locomotive?
QUOTE: Originally posted by samfp1943 Old Timer and others: The info in this thread is pretty awsome. Good reading and a lot of questions answered. Thanks, Sam
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