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Issue Details
Cover Title: EMD's SD40-2
Cover Subtitle: From N&W to NS
On the Cover: SD40-2 #6194 in Atlanta, GA on December 13, 2004. The history of these most successful locomotives is long and interesting. Our cover story on the "dash 2's" begins on page 4. overhead photo showing roof, antennas, horns, fans. tank cars on adjacent track
Articles In This Issue
Alphabet Soup / A sea of numbers that do have a purpose - Harry Bundy
N&W EMD Built SD40-2's / One of the most successful locomotives ever - Russ Goodwin
  Photo NS SD40-2 #6195 in Gainsville, GA on Oct 4, 2005 (Russ Goodwin)
  Photo close up of 3 axle truck, Apr 2004 (Russ Goodwin)
  Photo N&W Unite #1635, date and location unknown, high hood (Mike Ray photo)
  Photo NS Unit 1643 in Gainesville, GA on May 15, 2005 (low hood) (Russ Goodwin)
  Photo Unit 6109 shows the swap of the firecracker antenna and the horn on cab roof. Gainesville, GA on Dec 4, 2005 (Russ Goodwin)
  Photo Unit 6178 in Winston-Salem, NC on Oct 1, 2004 (Russ Goodwin)
  Photo overhead photos of 48" diameter fans comparing variations (Russ Goodwin)
  Photo unit 1647 at Shenandoah Jct, Va, date unknown, side view, NW paint (D. Scott Chatfield photo)
  Photo Unit 1627 in Crewe VA, wears the new F8 lettering scheme on Jan 15, 1986, high hood unit (Kermit Geary, Jr. Photo)
  Photo Unit 1695 with ditch lights applied in the 1990's (Russ Goodwin)
  Photo overhead view of unit 1642 in August 2004 showing fan styles illustrating changes over the life of the unit (Russ Goodwin)
  Photo NS 6114 has had significant detail change from how the unit was delivered, it currently rides on standard HT-C trucks which are probably off of an ex-Southern SD40-2. (Russ Goodwin)
  Photo Unit 6142 modified for yard service with remote control and strobe lights. Bluefield, VA, July 2005 (Russ Goodwin)
  Photo NW 1628 received remote control equipment as well as yellow safety paint at several locations June 2004 (Russ Goodwin)
  Photo NS 3821 as rebuilt as SD38-2. Originally N&W 6206 (Mike Ray photo)
  Photo NS 6200 has been repainted into NS 2003 Horse head scheme, has had a roof top air conditioner added and the pilot has be repainted with white chevrons (Mike Ray photo)
Designing N&W's Steam Power Train Resistance Equations / Proving just how great the Y6 could be! - David R. Stephenson
  Chart Figure 1, Y6 Performance, Glen Lyn to Pearsisburg, 9300 tons, drawbar pull, train reistance, speed (author's data and calculations)
  Table Table 1, Drawbar pull and train resistance at various speeds, Glen Lyn to Pearisburg (author's data and calculations)
  Chart Figure 2, Y6 performance, Eggleston to Dry Branch, 9300 tons, drawbar pull and train resistance at various speeds (author's data and calculations)
  Chart Figure 4, Y6 performance, Eggleston to Dry Branch, 10,300 tons, drawbar pull and train resistance at various speeds (author's data and calculations)
  Chart Figure 3, Y6 performance, Glen Lyn to Pearisburg, 10,300 tons, drawbar pull and train resistance at various speeds (author's data and calculations)
  Table Table 3, Y6 performance, Glen Lyn to Pearisburg, 10,300 tons, drawbar pull and train resistance at various speeds (author's data and calculations)
  Table Table 4, Y6 performance, Eggleston to Dry Branch, 10,300 tons, drawbar pull and train resistance at various speeds (author's data and calculations)
  Table Table 2, Y6 performance, Eggleston to Dry Branch, 9300 tons, drawbar pull and train resistance at various speeds, maximum curvature (author's data and calculations)
  Chart Figure 5, Average DHP per mile calculated using adjusted Davis equation, Glen Lyn to Walton (author's data and calculations)
  Chart Figure 6, Average at each mile marker calculated using adjusted Davis equation, Glen Lyn to Walton (author's data and calculations)
The Pocahontas: N&W's last token effort at Passenger Service / A Passenger Train Journal Reprint - Bruce D. Williams
  Photo "Pocahontas" lettering on the side of passenger car (N&W Photo/ VPI&SU collection)
  Photo N&W female employee dressed as Pocahontas standing beside train (N&W Photo/ VPI&SU collection)
  Table Listing of consist embedded in article (author's data and calculations)
Book Review: N&W Giant of Steam , Revised edition, by Col Lewis I Jeffries - Bill McClure
Nuggets from the Archives / N&W as 'The Godfather" - Gordon Hamilton
  Drawing illustration of local people struggling to pull sled carrying desperately ill Mrs. Weaver through deep snow to station at White Top for trip to hospital in Abingdon (Norfolk and Western Magazine)
  Photo Clearing Snow at White Top, March 1942, Section Foreman Lee Surber and trackmen Gray Farmer and McKinley Payne (Norfolk and Western Magazine)
  Photo Mrs Weaver with infant Dickie Norwest Weaver (Norfolk and Western Magazine)
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