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Rails Remembered Volume 3 by Louis M Newton with dust jacket
Rails Remembered Volume 3 by Louis M Newton with dust jacket
Rails Remembered Volume 3 by Louis M Newton with dust jacket
Rails Remembered Volume 3 by Louis M Newton with dust jacket
Rails Remembered Volume 3 by Louis M Newton with dust jacket
Rails Remembered Volume 3 by Louis M Newton with dust jacket

Rails Remembered Volume 3 by Louis M Newton with dust jacket


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Rails Remembered Volume 3 by Louis M Newton with dust jacket
 
Rails Remembered Vol 3 by Louis M Newton
Hard Cover w/ dust jacket
485-698 pages
Copyright 1999
CONTENTS
Addenda and Errata, Volume 2485
Acknowledgments, Volume 3486
Introduction, Volume 3 487
33 - A WINTER OF DISCONTENT488                                                                                      
And a Shortage of Coal
34 - THE EDUCATION OF AN APPRENTICE BOY498                                                                             
And the Sight of a New "J"
35 - TESTING A Y-6b 510                                                                                                                                
And Dining on a Dynamometer Car
36 - HEAVY RUNNING REPAIRS 520                                                                                                                                      
The View from the Pits
37 - MORE HEAVY RUNNING REPAIRS 530                                                                      
And Some Photo Opportunities
38 - LIGHT RUNNING REPAIRS540                                                                                                 
The Wind Tunnels
39 - WORKING WITH THE CAR KNOCKERS550                                                                                   
And a Mixed Train to Lexington
40 - THE FOUNDRY AT ROANOKE SHOPS 560                                                                                                                                                                                        And the Railroads of Craig County
41 - THE VIRGINIA-CAROLINA576                                                                                            
What Was and What Might Have Been
42 - THE SMITH SHOP594                                                                                                        
And a Week's Vacation
43 - THE NEW ENGINE GANG600                                                                                                   
Building Steam Switchers in 1951
44 - OTHER EVENTS OF 1951 606                                                                                           
Some Trips to Faraway Places
45 - THE BOILER SHOP618                                                                                                      
And Double-headed "M's"
46 - NEW MALLETS IN 1952 632                                                                                              
And "The Huckleberry"
47 - THE MACHINE SHOP646                                                                                               
A Trip to Canada and a Furlough
48 - A SUPERCHARGED Y-6b 656                                                                                            
The Booster Valve
49 - A VISIT FROM IKE 664                                                                                                         
And "No Comment" on Diesels
50 - THE BATTLE OF BIG SANDY 672                                                                                  
And Roanoke's Railroad Centennial
51 - WEEKLY ENGINE SCHEDULES684                                                                                  
And Converting Tenders to Canteens Bibliography697
DUST JACKET INTRODUCTION
Volume 3 of Rails Remembered is a continuation of the previous volumes covering the author's recollections of railroading. In this one he is an active participant - although admittedly a novice - as an employee of the Norfolk & Western Railway.
During the time period of this volume, most major U. S. railroads were dieselizing at a rapid pace, and several had already reached that goal. Not so, of course, on the Norfolk & Western, the foremost champion of the cause of steam motive power. In fact, the N&W was still completely committed to steam - and was even adding to its extensive fleet of "modern coal-burning steam locomotives" by building new ones in its Roanoke Shops.
Not intended to be a formal treatise, Volume 3 is a first-person account of the author's day-to-day experiences as a special apprentice in the N&W's Mechanical Department from 1950 through March 1953. Beginning at the busy Shaffers Crossing engine terminal and continuing through the various departments of the company's vast Roanoke Shops, he describes the work in which he participated - and some of the people involved, part of a large group of dedicated and loyal employees of all ranks. New locomotives constructed during that time included the magnificent streamlined Class J's, the workhorse Y-6b's, and the S-la Switchers. Road tests of both Class A and Y-6b locomotives with the N&W Dynamometer Car are described.
This volume also covers some of the more obscure but picturesque portions of the N&W system, such as the Abingdon and the North Carolina Branches, and includes a few flashbacks into the company's earlier history. It also provides glimpses of the operations of some of N&W's neighbors, including the Chesapeake & Ohio, the Southern, and the Virginian Railways.
Many of the black-and-white photographs are from the author's collection. Others are from the collection of James M. Jarvis, a British railroader who visited the N&W in 1951; from Frank E. Ardrey, Jr.; and from the Norfolk and Western Railway Archival Collection, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University Libraries.


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