| Observation / The Disappearing Railroad - Jarrell Greever |
| Current News - Robert G. Bowers |
| View from the Cab / The (Dropped) Three-Dollar Lantern - Thomas D. Dressler |
| Depressed-Center Flats Did the Heavy Lifting - Staff Arrow |
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Drawing |
125 Ton Depressed Center Flat Car Class F1 (N&W Drawing) |
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Photo |
None, depressed center flat at VMT (Ron Davis photo) |
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Table |
N&W Depressed Center Flat Cars (Arrow Staff) |
| The Tennessean / ICH Announces 2-8-0, 4-4-0 Steamers - James Nichols |
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Photo of IHC 2-8-0 (unknown) |
| A Dispatcher's Nightmare - Robert Harvey |
| History of Surviving N&W Passenger Equipment / An Update - Jim Cochran |
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Surviving N&W Passenter Equipment (Jim Cochran) |
| Bluefield's Tower of Power - James N. Gillum |
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The Bluefield Coaling Station was a conjunction of concrete, steel and efficiency. Here, two Y-Class locomotives are serviced while a hopper sits on the track adjacent to Y-6 No. 2130. This photo shows the placement of two of the four water standpipes which servced the four service tracks of the facility (N&W photo, Tom Heinrich collection) |
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In this view, looking northeast, the Bluefield coaling station is about 40% complete,. Note the Class Ph coach and the "turtleroof" baggage-mail car in the foreground. At center left is the south side of the roundhouse, soon to be removed for erection of the lubratorium service building. (Roger R. Whitt photo) |
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Bluefield Coaling Tower, Ogle Construction Co, Drawing 74715 (N&WHS Archives) |
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By the Spring of 1952, construction of the coaling station is approximately 75% complete. The slope of the top is now taking shape. Note the wooden N&W box car and two steam-powered cranes in the foreground. (Roger F. Whitt photo) |
| The N&W: Once it was a farmer, too! / Taken from an article in the Tidewater News, August 10, 1989 - Hanes Byerly |
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The N&W farm at Ivor, VA. Early 1900s photo (unknown) |
| N&W Covered Hoppers in HO Scale / 2nd in a Series - Wilson McClung |
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Drawing |
Fig. 1: General arrangement drawing of Class HC-7 built by Pullman-Standard (Drawing courtesy Norfolk Southern Corp) |
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Drawing |
Fig 2: General arrangement drawing of Class HC-54 build by Greenville Steel Car Co. (Drawing courtesy Norfolk Southern Corp.) |
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Fig. 3: Modifciation to Model Die Cast (MDC) car involves installation of vertical panels of styrene ("closed hopper ends") beneath the underside of the slope sheets. (unknown) |
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Fig. 4, Left: Class HC-7 built by Pullman-Standard for N&W during 1956-57 (W. S. McClung photo) |
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Fig.4, Right: Atlas factory-painted HC-7. The model could be improved by shaving off the "hat section"-type end ribs above the bolsters and replacing with channel ribs and painting to match (W. S. McClung photo) |
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Fig.5: N&W Class HC-9 built by Greenville Steel Car Co fo the N&W during 1960. (N&W Archival Collection/VPI&SU Libraries) |
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Fig.6, Left: N&W Class HC-52 built by Greenville Steel Car Co. for the Wabash during 1957 (Courtesy of Howard Ameling) |
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Fig 6, Right: Corresponding model is the MDC car modified by closing off the bottom portion of the slope sheets with styrene panels and substituting the ECW #9112 roof with the correct hatch spacing (W. S. McClung photo) |
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Fig.7, Left: N&W Class HC-54 built by Greenville Steel Car Co. for the Wabash during 1959. (W. S. McClung photo) |
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Fig.7, Right: Corresponding model is the Atlas car with the vertical "hat section" end ribs shaved off and replaced with styrene "channel" ribs (W. S. McClung photo) |
| Book Reviews / The Winston-Salem Southbound Railway by Jeff Miller and Jim Vaughn - James F. Brewer |
| Book Reviews / Southwest Virginia's Railroad: Modernization and the Sectional Crisis, by Kenneth W. Noe - Mason Y. Cooper |
| Classic Ads of the N&W / "Come on Ophelia - it's your Neck!" - reprint Norfolk & Western Magazine |
