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Norfolk Southern 1982-1994 Motive Power Review NS by Withers and Bowers
Norfolk Southern 1982-1994 Motive Power Review NS by Withers and Bowers
Hard Cover with dust jacket
Copyright 1995 FIRST PRINTING
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Acknowledgments Transportation Thoroughbred .
Chapter One - Fuel-Efficient "Horse" Power ..
Chapter Two - Switchers
Chapter Three - Four-axle EMD Road Switchers
Chapter Four - Four-axle GE Road Switchers
Chapter Five - Six-axle EMD Road Switchers
Chapter Six - Six-axle GE Road Switchers .
Chapter Seven - ALCo Road Switchers, EMD Cab Units, and Slugs
NS NORFOLK SOUTHERN 1982 -1994 MOTIVE POWER REVIEW
by Paul K. Withers and Robert G. Bowers
Today's Norfolk Southern Railway functions as a unified, coherent transportation system whose 14,500-mile network qualifies it as the nation's fourth-largest railroad. Operating in 20 states, NS serves the Southeast and Midwest, as well as the District of Columbia and the province of Ontario.
The Norfolk Southern consolidation brought with it two different operating philosophies. While Southern operated an even mixture of traffic, its high-priority, time-sensitive freights rolled up and down its Washington-Atlanta and Cincinnati-Atlanta corridors behind fleets of high-horsepower, four-axle and six-axle Electro-Motive Division locomotives. To service a maze of branch lines tapping all corners of the Southeast, Southern operated a fleet of modern four-axle medium-horsepower EMD and General Electric locomotives. Yard work was entrusted to a fleet of modern EMD 1,500-horsepower end-cab switchers.
On the other hand, more than half of Norfolk & Western's carloadings were coal, dictating a different choice of motive power. Six-axle high-horsepower locomotives were required to move this tonnage from the mines to the docks. These units were ideally suited for climbing N&W's mountainous operating profile, as well as for traversing numerous heavy-duty branch lines in West Virginia that serviced mine loadouts. The other half of N&W's traffic consisted of merchandise shipments, primarily in the Midwest. The same six-axle units moved this traffic with the assistance of four-axle GP4Os and GP38ACs. Yard work was performed by aging GP9s and American Locomotive Co. and EMD end-cab switchers.
While Norfolk Southern began with a fairly modern fleet - the average age of its locomotives was just over 14 years - the company owned a fair number of fuel-hungry models. At the time of the merger, NS's roster numbered 2,906 units. Nearly one-quarter of these were EMD GP30, GP35, SD35, and SD45 models. By December 31, 1994, the number of units had been cut to 2,056, as most of the older end-cab switchers, and numerous GPIs and 9s departed the roster. They were replaced by a fleet high-tech, fuel-efficient locomotives - GP59s, GP60s, SD70s, C39-8s, Dash 8-32Bs, and Dash 8-40Cs.
In a blend of roster and action views, this book covers all the models that were on Norfolk Southern's roster at the time of the June 1, 1982,
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