my compliments on mantaining a great list! That's about as good as you can get as for list member approval. So we get a 'weed' every once in a while. Thanks...
Well............after a long and anxious wait my copy of Mallory Hope Ferrell's new N&W book arrived at my FLHS. It's called "Norfolk & Western...Steam's Last...
Hello N&W Group of railfriends. This list is from an old Hogger a N&W steam locomotive passenger engineer/Retired... But, I'g go on a run in a split second if...
Great e-mail, Mr.McCauley, I really enjoyed reading it. There were some terms I'd never heard of before. Thanks for sharing the information with us....
Thank you Ted, I do like too hear if people enjoy a little old railroad talk. Sounds as if you have had good rail experience and would enjoy a posting from ...
For those of you who are E-Bay users, check out this cool t-shirt being offered for $14.25 (s-xl) and $16.25 (2xl-3xl). You can find them by copying and...
Would someone be so kind as to tell me the tractive effort ratings of the following four classes of Norfolk & Western locomotives? The 4-8-0 Mastodons The...
Kevin, the Tractive Efforts are as follows.... The A's...114,000 lbs. The J's...80,000 lbs for the 600-604,611-613 and 73,300 lbs for 605-610 as these where...
Kevin, The 4-8-0 was never called a Mastodon on the N&W. It was called a M2 class locomotive. Traction effort is listed as 52,457 lbs. The J class were listed...
To our Tireless Moderator, I wish too tell you I feel some how mis- quoted. I, trying to find out what all was going on so I could get back too N&W railroading...
If you wish you can go to http://imagebase.lib.vt.edu/browse.php? folio_ID=trans/nss It is out of Virginia Tech and has copywrited N&W material. You will be...
Hi Frank, You have been a refreshing contributor to the group. I hope you don't leave, but if so, hope you will be back soon. While we are all interested in...
Thank you Group, I wish to thank all my new and unkown friends on the N&W site. It sure is good to hear from so many good men, woman and railroad men. I can't...
Frank, I don't generally say much here but you are fine in my book. We all want to talk trains and been there dun that.. DON'T LET LITTLE THINGS BOTHER YOU. i...
Thank you Scott, I am having to eat a bit of crow. Expected more from a railroader than I put out for myself. Yes on the railroad it is team work and action....
Hey John, I'm happy to meet another native of southern Ohio. I'm from Ironton myself. I have vivid memories of the steam engine that made the daily round trip...
Not sure what time period you are talking about. Unless Henry Ford owned the Pennsylvania Railroad as well, I don't believe he owned the DT&I during my...
Greetings. Anyone out there got photos of N&W enclosed auto racks with the "NW" logo (white NW on black background) on TTGX flat cars? A fine individual has...
Henry Ford owned the DT&I from 1920 til 1929 when he sold it to the Pennsylvania Railroads financial subsidiary, Penn Road Corporation. Mr. Ford when the...
Several points: There was no other railroad close to my Grandparents' (later Mother's) property, so the Iron Railway had to be a predecessor of the DT&I...
Here is a link to a history of the DT&I. Yes it did start with the Iron Railroad. http://www.dtirr.com/dtihist.html Rodney [Non-text portions of this message...
Hi Mark, It is interesting that you have found auto racks with the MW logo on them. I thought all NW was gone since they even have many new coal hoppers and...
List: I have uploaded some pix of NW mow box cars to: http://www.rrpicturearchives.net/archiveThumbs.aspx?id=3335 Some are probably already gone.... My...
Hi Dave, I am taking a huge liberty answering you about DT&I on our N&W site however, My great grand-pappy Patrick McCauley was one of the financiers and...
Hi Mark, It is good to hear from you again. Mark I answered you on your own e-mail but, decided to answer you on our group of railfriends. Mark, I did not know...
Thanks Charlie, I was thinking just the other day that I do not see any more NW logos. I am glad you are posting the photos. Charlie, I have sorted and made ...
I am guessing that Seattle rarely comes up in discussions on the Norfolk and Western. But NW power was quite common up here during the 1970's and early 80's....
Hey thanks for these! At the time we knew there was a pool going on but we didn't know how far west they were going. We were seeing plenty of UP here. Charlie...
Hi Mark, I was out today going toward Rogersville and we now have a looong new yard to handle the loooong coal trains coming down from SW Va. There was what we...
