[PRCo] N&W J-class locomotives

[Bob Rathke]

I have a few slides of N&W J-class locomotives pulling passenger trains in
the Roanoke area in 1957.  If anyone would like see them, send me an e-mail
off-list.

Bob  1/29/03

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----- Original Message -----
From: Fred Schneider <fschnei at supernet.com>
To: <pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org>
Sent: Wednesday, January 29, 2003 11:01 AM
Subject: [PRCo] Re: PSSST - WANNA BUY LOUSY PICTURES?


>
> A whole lot faster to drive from New York to Roanoke via I-78 and I-81.
No small
> wonder that the trains and over-the-road buses have all but vanished.   In
my youth,
> the Pennsy / Norfolk and Western still had two daily trains a day ... the
Harrisburg
> - Roanoke day train, and the night train with carried a New York and
Roanoke
> sleeper.  Of course this was a drastic drop from the peak.  I never saw
them on this
> end, but I did see the sleeper train behind a class J 4-8-4 after dinner
one evening
> at a small town north of Roanoke where it passed a southbound freight
being mauled by
> a Y6b Mallet