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By:Mike Woodruff
Dates:1/1/1971 - 1/1/1982
Album Info:Roster and action views of Norfolk and Western locomotives, with emphasis on the "hamburger herald" era.
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N&W 3717
Title:  N&W 3717
Description:  Not your ideal switching locomotive, N&W 3717 works Jersey Central train GJ-2 at Bound Brook, NJ. She was ex-WAB 717, nee-WAB 1185. Date of photo approximate.
Photo Date:  6/1/1970  Upload Date: 1/14/2020 4:14:19 PM
Location:  Bound Brook, NJ
Author:  Mike Woodruff
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Locomotives:  NW 3717(F7A)
Views:  378   Comments: 1
N&W 3718
Title:  N&W 3718
Description:  A pair of N&W Fs team up with a CNJ Geep to move westbound tonnage. N&W 3718 was ex-WAB 718, nee-WAB 1185A. Date of photo approximate.
Photo Date:  6/1/1971  Upload Date: 1/16/2020 4:10:05 PM
Location:  Bound Brook, NJ
Author:  Mike Woodruff
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Locomotives:  NW 3718(F7A)
Views:  265   Comments: 0
N&W 1374
Title:  N&W 1374
Description:  A N&W northbound bores out of the fog behind a GP40/GP9/U30B combination. Date approximate.
Photo Date:  10/1/1971  Upload Date: 12/3/2008 9:13:00 AM
Location:  Marion, OH
Author:  Mike Woodruff
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Locomotives:  NW 1374(GP40)
Views:  1332   Comments: 5
N&W 1529
Title:  N&W 1529
Description:  Northbound N&W tonnage on the former Pennsy Sandusky branch crosses the EL and PC at Marion. The depot hotel is behind the locomotives. Rooms were only a few dollars a night, but don't plan on getting much sleep, with freights pounding the diamonds every 20 minutes or so. Date approximate.
Photo Date:  10/1/1971  Upload Date: 1/23/2007 8:04:53 PM
Location:  Marion, OH
Author:  Mike Woodruff
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Locomotives:  NW 1529(SD35)
Views:  1701   Comments: 1
N&W 1735
Title:  N&W 1735
Description:  A high hood SD45 leads this N&W southbound at Marion. The second unit, N&W 1308, is notable as being part of a Wabash order of GP35s with low noses and no dynamic brakes. N&W cancelled the order before it was complete and 1308 was the last unit delivered. Date approximate.
Photo Date:  10/1/1971  Upload Date: 12/3/2008 10:05:20 AM
Location:  Marion, OH
Author:  Mike Woodruff
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Locomotives:  NW 1735(SD45)
Views:  1350   Comments: 1
N&W 740
Title:  N&W 740
Description:  N&W 740, from only their second order of freight Geeps, was delivered in 1956 when steam still ruled the railroad (and this trackage belonged to the PRR!) Date approximate.
Photo Date:  10/1/1971  Upload Date: 12/3/2008 9:45:38 AM
Location:  Marion, OH
Author:  Mike Woodruff
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Locomotives:  NW 740(GP9)
Views:  904   Comments: 1
N&W 1014
Title:  N&W 1014
Description:  N&W had the only high nose C425s. Date of photo approximate.
Photo Date:  6/1/1972  Upload Date: 12/16/2008 11:37:47 AM
Location:  Crewe, VA
Author:  Mike Woodruff
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Locomotives:  NW 1014(C425)
Views:  1328   Comments: 2
N&W 1333
Title:  N&W 1333
Description:  Four N&W high hood EMDs haul a northbound freight from Mopac's Dupo Yard. N&W 1333 was later NS 1333, HLCX 4054, is extant as MEC 379.
Photo Date:  6/1/1972  Upload Date: 12/9/2008 10:45:59 AM
Location:  East Saint Louis, IL
Author:  Mike Woodruff
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Locomotives:  NW 1333(GP40)
Views:  1188   Comments: 0
N&W 1386
Title:  N&W 1386
Description:  N&W GP40 #1386 leads a trio of U-boats on this westbound on the former Wabash, crossing over I-70 just east of High Hill, MO. Date of photo approximate.
Photo Date:  6/1/1972  Upload Date: 12/10/2008 10:36:42 AM
Location:  High Hill, MO
Author:  Mike Woodruff
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Locomotives:  NW 1386(GP40) KCS 3998(SD70ACe)
Views:  1031   Comments: 3
N&W 2702
Title:  N&W 2702
Description:  A former Nickel Plate Geep leads the way eastbound out of Granite City on the former Wabash. Date approximate.
Photo Date:  6/1/1972  Upload Date: 12/8/2008 11:09:46 AM
Location:  Granite City, IL
Author:  Mike Woodruff
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Locomotives:  NW 2702(GP18)
Views:  1489   Comments: 0
N&W 3355
Title:  N&W 3355
Description:  Cab hop consisting of a former Wabash SW7 running "glass out" and a former Wabash streamlined cupola caboose. Date approximate.
Photo Date:  6/1/1972  Upload Date: 12/8/2008 1:05:05 PM
Location:  Granite City, IL
Author:  Mike Woodruff
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Locomotives:  NW 3355(SW7)
Views:  1080   Comments: 1
N&W 730
Title:  N&W 730
Description:  Pure N&W, three high hood Geeps on a coal train. N&W 730 was later NS 5003, NS 2003, SBVR 2003, and is extant (albeit with a chopped nose) as SBVR 92. Date of photo approximate.
Photo Date:  6/1/1972  Upload Date: 12/16/2008 11:19:18 AM
Location:  Crewe, VA
Author:  Mike Woodruff
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Locomotives:  NW 730(GP9)
Views:  1032   Comments: 2
N&W 8139
Title:  N&W 8139
Description:  Both N&W and C&O renumbered their U25Bs into the 8100-series in anticipation of a merger that never happened. The 8139 is ex-N&W 3516, nee-Wabash 509. Date approximate.
Photo Date:  6/1/1972  Upload Date: 12/8/2008 11:40:18 AM
Location:  Granite City, IL
Author:  Brian Woodruff
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Locomotives:  NW 8139(U25B)
Views:  1309   Comments: 0
N&W 390
Title:  N&W 390
Description:  Geeps and Alcos seem mundane compared to the Ys and As that were once serviced here.
Photo Date:  6/16/1972  Upload Date: 4/9/2006 11:35:39 AM
Location:  Crewe, VA
Author:  Mike Woodruff
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Locomotives:  NW 390(RS11)
Views:  1524   Comments: 1
N&W 1576
Title:  N&W 1576
Description:  N&W high hood SDs head south and cross the EL diamonds with empty coal hoppers from the port at Sandusky. Date approximate.
Photo Date:  10/1/1972  Upload Date: 1/28/2007 2:53:47 PM
Location:  Marion, OH
Author:  Mike Woodruff
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Locomotives:  NW 1576(SD35)
Views:  846   Comments: 2
N&W 1791
Title:  N&W 1791
Description:  A pair of SD45s heads south on the Sandusky District in the last rays of the sun. Date approximate.
Photo Date:  10/1/1972  Upload Date: 12/26/2008 6:47:05 PM
Location:  Marion, OH
Author:  Mike Woodruff
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Locomotives:  NW 1791(SD45)
Views:  925   Comments: 0
N&W 2530
Title:  N&W 2530
Description:  A ratty former NKP Geep leads this westbound, about to clatter over the C&O and PC diamonds. Date of photo approximate.
Photo Date:  10/1/1972  Upload Date: 12/26/2008 12:00:51 PM
Location:  Fostoria, OH
Author:  Mike Woodruff
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Locomotives:  NW 2530(GP9)
Views:  1542   Comments: 5
N&W 562
Title:  N&W 562
Description:  Eastbound on the former Nickel Plate. N&W 562 was also later NS 562. Date of photo approximate.
Photo Date:  10/1/1972  Upload Date: 12/26/2008 11:49:07 AM
Location:  Fostoria, OH
Author:  Mike Woodruff
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Locomotives:  NW 562(GP30)
Views:  1200   Comments: 0
N&W 1512
Title:  N&W 1512
Description:  N&W SD35 1512 handles a train of MofW equipment and camp cars on the Sandusky District. She would later become NS 1512.
Photo Date:  11/1/1972  Upload Date: 12/27/2008 3:50:43 PM
Location:  Marion, OH
Author:  Mike Woodruff
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Locomotives:  NW 1512(SD35)
Views:  1018   Comments: 1
N&W 2524
Title:  N&W 2524
Description:  N&W 2524 looks fairly benign here as she leads a pair of Alco RS11s with a southbound train of autoparts on the Sandusky district. Fourteen years earlier, however, she was delivered as NKP 524, part of a 20 unit order of GP9s that killed off the last of the great Nickel Plate Berkshires. Date approximate.
Photo Date:  11/1/1972  Upload Date: 2/13/2007 9:04:27 AM
Location:  Marion, OH
Author:  Mike Woodruff
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Locomotives:  NW 2524(GP9)
Views:  702   Comments: 2
N&W 741
Title:  N&W 741
Description:  Built in 1956 when N&W still rostered a full stable of steam locos, the 741 here appears to have lost a good bit of paint plus most of her hamburger herald from the end of the short hood. I believe those are new 1973 AMC Matadors on the autorack second out. Date of photo approximate.
Photo Date:  11/1/1972  Upload Date: 12/27/2008 12:39:26 PM
Location:  Marion, OH
Author:  Mike Woodruff
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Locomotives:  NW 741(GP9)
Views:  723   Comments: 1
N&W 1505
Title:  N&W 1505
Description:  N&W SD35 #1505 works single southbound on the Sandusky District with what looks like some new Ford pickups second out. Date of photo approximate.
Photo Date:  1/1/1973  Upload Date: 1/1/2009 1:25:07 PM
Location:  Marion, OH
Author:  Mike Woodruff
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Locomotives:  NW 1505(SD35)
Views:  1082   Comments: 1
N&W 2455
Title:  N&W 2455
Description:  View looks NW up the former W&LE, but this is actually an AC&Y train setting out at Sterling. Date approximate.
Photo Date:  1/1/1973  Upload Date: 12/31/2008 5:00:38 PM
Location:  Spencer, OH
Author:  Mike Woodruff
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Locomotives:  NW 2455(GP9)
Views:  829   Comments: 2
N&W 2508
Title:  N&W 2508
Description:  Former Nickel Plate Geep and caboose on an eastbound local freight crossing the B&O diamonds. Date approximate.
Photo Date:  1/1/1973  Upload Date: 1/1/2009 3:49:44 PM
Location:  Fostoria, OH
Author:  Brian Woodruff
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Locomotives:  NW 2508(GP9)
Views:  849   Comments: 1
N&W 2700
Title:  N&W 2700
Description:  Westbound on the AC&Y. Date of photo approximate.
Photo Date:  1/1/1973  Upload Date: 12/31/2008 5:20:16 PM
Location:  Spencer, OH
Author:  Mike Woodruff
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Locomotives:  NW 2700(GP18)
Views:  1296   Comments: 2
N&W 4123
Title:  N&W 4123
Description:  N&W GP38AC 4123 works northbound past the Lima depot with a local freight. She was later NS 4123, rebuilt to NS GP38-2 5530. Date of photo approximate.
Photo Date:  1/1/1973  Upload Date: 2/28/2017 5:34:46 PM
Location:  Lima, OH
Author:  Mike Woodruff
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Locomotives:  NW 4123(GP38AC)
Views:  497   Comments: 1
N&W 421
Title:  N&W 421
Description:  The Centuries do what Alcos are supposed to do as the grain train accelerates west. Date of photo approximate.
Photo Date:  1/1/1973  Upload Date: 1/1/2009 3:27:13 PM
Location:  Fostoria, OH
Author:  Mike Woodruff
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Locomotives:  NW 421(C424)
Views:  1592   Comments: 0
N&W 424
Title:  N&W 424
Description:  Not only did N&W have a C424 numbered 424, but they had a C420 numbered 420! Date approximate.
Photo Date:  1/1/1973  Upload Date: 11/3/2006 11:27:56 AM
Location:  Creston, OH
Author:  Mike Woodruff
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Locomotives:  NW 424(C424)
Views:  1597   Comments: 1
N&W 726
Title:  N&W 726
Description:  A GP9/18/35/9 combo on a northbound coal train at Marion. N&W 726 was scrapped 10/82.
Photo Date:  1/1/1973  Upload Date: 12/31/2008 9:09:13 PM
Location:  Marion, OH
Author:  Brian Woodruff
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Locomotives:  NW 726(GP9)
Views:  831   Comments: 1
N&W 740
Title:  N&W 740
Description:  A GP9 leads two Alco Centuries on a westbound grain train, crossing the C&O and PC at Fostoria. Date of photo approximate.
Photo Date:  1/1/1973  Upload Date: 1/1/2009 3:17:47 PM
Location:  Fostoria, OH
Author:  Mike Woodruff
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Locomotives:  NW 740(GP9)
Views:  1062   Comments: 0
N&W 356
Title:  N&W 356
Description:  An RS11 and a Geep head south on the former Pennsy Sandusky district with a train of mostly empty hoppers from the docks at Sandusky. Date approximate.
Photo Date:  3/1/1973  Upload Date: 2/12/2007 10:06:38 PM
Location:  Marion, OH
Author:  Mike Woodruff
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Locomotives:  NW 356(RS11)
Views:  1384   Comments: 1
N&W 1008
Title:  N&W 1008
Description:  A high hood Alco C425 running long hood first crosses the former W&LE while leading tonnage out of the west end of the former NKP yard at Bellevue. The rather rusty looking switch to the left is the old Pennsy to Sandusky. Date approximate.
Photo Date:  4/1/1973  Upload Date: 1/10/2009 8:52:40 PM
Location:  Bellevue, OH
Author:  Mike Woodruff
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Locomotives:  NW 1008(C425)
Views:  2113   Comments: 2
N&W 216
Title:  N&W 216
Description:  An eastbound on the former Nickel Plate rounds the curve into Bellevue with two run-through SP GP35s in the consist. Shot from the former PRR right of way. Date approximate.
Photo Date:  4/1/1973  Upload Date: 1/10/2009 8:25:21 PM
Location:  Bellevue, OH
Author:  Mike Woodruff
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Locomotives:  NW 216(GP35)
Views:  1120   Comments: 0
N&W 2861
Title:  N&W 2861
Description:  A pair of former NKP RS11s bring a westbound train off of the former W&LE and turn north into the former NKP yard. Date of photo approximate.
Photo Date:  4/1/1973  Upload Date: 1/10/2009 8:40:42 PM
Location:  Bellevue, OH
Author:  Mike Woodruff
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Locomotives: 
Views:  1103   Comments: 0
N&W 2873
Title:  N&W 2873
Description:  Three ex-NKP motors at the Bellevue engine service tracks. N&W 873 was ex-NKP 873. Date approximate.
Photo Date:  4/1/1973  Upload Date: 11/3/2006 11:32:24 AM
Location:  Bellevue, OH
Author:  Mike Woodruff
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Locomotives:  NW 2873(RS36)
Views:  1351   Comments: 1
N&W 2875
Title:  N&W 2875
Description:  Former Nickel Plate passenger service RS36, used to be a regular on the "City of Chicago" passenger train; see http://www.rrpicturearchives.net/showPicture.aspx?id=677036. Date of this photo approximate.
Photo Date:  4/1/1973  Upload Date: 1/8/2009 4:14:06 PM
Location:  Bellevue, OH
Author:  Mike Woodruff
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Locomotives:  NW 2875(RS36)
Views:  1350   Comments: 1
N&W 2915
Title:  N&W 2915
Description:  N&W 2915 was ex-N&W 3544, nee-Wabash 544. She would later become NS 2915. Date of photo approximate.
Photo Date:  4/1/1973  Upload Date: 1/8/2009 4:43:13 PM
Location:  Bellevue, OH
Author:  Mike Woodruff
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Locomotives:  NW 2915(GP35)
Views:  1099   Comments: 0
N&W 3594
Title:  N&W 3594
Description:  A pair of former Wabash Train Masters (repowered by Alco) and a former Nickel Plate Geep at the engine service track in Bellevue. Date of photo approximate.
Photo Date:  4/1/1973  Upload Date: 1/8/2009 4:32:46 PM
Location:  Bellevue, OH
Author:  Mike Woodruff
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Locomotives: 
Views:  2251   Comments: 2
N&W 3596
Title:  N&W 3596
Description:  Ex-Wabash Alco-repowered FM Trainmasters on the Bellevue hump, before they were cut down into slugs. Date approximate.
Photo Date:  4/1/1973  Upload Date: 7/23/2006 9:40:14 PM
Location:  Bellevue, OH
Author:  Mike Woodruff
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Locomotives:  NW 3596(H-24-66)
Views:  4767   Comments: 3
N&W 3599
Title:  N&W 3599
Description:  N&W 3599 reveals her Wabash heritage in this shot. Going back even further, she was FM demo TM-2, then Wabash 551, and suffered the indignity of being repowered by Alco as Wabash 599. Date of photo approximate.
Photo Date:  4/1/1973  Upload Date: 1/9/2009 2:10:51 PM
Location:  Bellevue, OH
Author:  Mike Woodruff
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Locomotives: 
Views:  1972   Comments: 2
N&W 623
Title:  N&W 623
Description:  An eastbound train from Toledo on the former W&LE swings around the connection track to head into the former NKP yard at Bellevue. Date approximate.
Photo Date:  4/1/1973  Upload Date: 1/10/2009 8:13:42 PM
Location:  Bellevue, OH
Author:  Mike Woodruff
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Locomotives: 
Views:  968   Comments: 2
N&W 7902
Title:  N&W 7902
Description:  N&W 7902 crosses the former W&LE and passes in front of Bellevue tower, originally PRR maintained and staffed by PRR and W&LE. The photographer's Datsun is parked by the tower. N&W 7902 was originally Nickel Plate Baldwin AS16 #322. EMD rebuilt it in 1959 with a 16-567C and a GP9 long hood. It was scrapped at Roanoke in 1977. Date of photo approximate.
Photo Date:  4/1/1973  Upload Date: 1/10/2009 7:42:22 PM
Location:  Bellevue, OH
Author:  Mike Woodruff
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Locomotives:  NW 7902(AS16M)
Views:  1893   Comments: 2
N&W 7903
Title:  N&W 7903
Description:  N&W 7903 is a former Nickel Plate Baldwin AS16 that was repowered by EMD in 1959 with a 16-567C and a Geep-style long hood. Date of photo approximate.
Photo Date:  4/1/1973  Upload Date: 1/9/2009 3:13:21 PM
Location:  Bellevue, OH
Author:  Mike Woodruff
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Locomotives: 
Views:  1422   Comments: 1
N&W 957
Title:  N&W 957
Description:  A GP18 leads northbound tonnage into Bellevue off of the former Pennsy from Columbus. The tracks leading off to the right are the former NKP to Chicago and St. Louis. N&W 957 was later NS 957, rebuilt to slug NS 9711, is believed extant as PNWR 101. Date of photo approximate.
Photo Date:  4/1/1973  Upload Date: 1/10/2009 9:44:10 PM
Location:  Bellevue, OH
Author:  Mike Woodruff
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Locomotives:  NW 957(GP18)
Views:  960   Comments: 0
WM 59
Title:  WM 59
Description:  An eastbound Alpha-Jet gets underway out of Bellevue on the former W&LE.
Photo Date:  4/1/1973  Upload Date: 1/10/2009 1:44:58 PM
Location:  Bellevue, OH
Author:  Mike Woodruff
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Locomotives:  WM 59(F7A)
Views:  1834   Comments: 2
N&W 1537
Title:  N&W 1537
Description:  An eastbound pig train about to cross the PC and C&O diamonds at Fostoria. Date of photo approximate.
Photo Date:  5/1/1973  Upload Date: 1/20/2009 3:18:01 PM
Location:  Fostoria, OH
Author:  Mike Woodruff
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Locomotives:  NW 1537(SD35)
Views:  1066   Comments: 2
N&W 214
Title:  N&W 214
Description:  N&W GP35 214 leads a westbound at the B&O diamonds. Date of photo approximate.
Photo Date:  5/1/1973  Upload Date: 1/20/2009 3:50:57 PM
Location:  Fostoria, OH
Author:  Mike Woodruff
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Locomotives:  NW 214(GP35)
Views:  938   Comments: 0
N&W 230
Title:  N&W 230
Description:  Two N&W units handle a westbound train on the EL main at Mansfield. This was the St. Louis Cannonball, a Dereco-era E. St. Louis-Croxton (NJ) N&W-EL run-through via Huntington, IN. Date of photo approximate.
Photo Date:  5/1/1973  Upload Date: 1/22/2009 6:42:10 AM
Location:  Mansfield, OH
Author:  Mike Woodruff
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Locomotives:  NW 230(GP35)
Views:  1223   Comments: 5
N&W 8495
Title:  N&W 8495
Description:  Two N&W U30Bs handle a short pig train eastbound on the EL main between Mansfield and Ashland. This is the New York Cannonball, a Dereco-era E. St. Louis-Croxton (NJ) N&W-EL run-through via Huntington, IN. Note the two ice bunker refrigerator cars in the consist. Date of photo approximate.
Photo Date:  5/1/1973  Upload Date: 1/22/2009 6:29:37 AM
Location:  Windsor, OH
Author:  Mike Woodruff
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Locomotives:  NW 8495(U30B)
Views:  1063   Comments: 2
N&W 8535
Title:  N&W 8535
Description:  Westbound coal train crossing the C&O and PC diamonds. Date approximate.
Photo Date:  5/1/1973  Upload Date: 1/21/2009 1:36:16 PM
Location:  Fostoria, OH
Author:  Mike Woodruff
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Locomotives:  NW 8535(U30B)
Views:  1338   Comments: 2


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