I am modelling a portion of the N&W Hagerstown, MD-Roanoke. I am curious if anyone knows of any freight and passenger train number/symbols that ran from the 30s-pre-NS. I am especially interested in anything that ran from Hagerstown-Shenandoah, and any N&W activity in and around Front Royal.
If there is also a source online that anyone can recommend I would be grateful. I would seek out prototype timetables but my budget and location will not allow that for now.
I found several N&W Yahoo groups. This one seemed the most promising:
https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/norfolk-western-rr/info
Ed
There was: #88, #96, #52, #51 & #95. I don’t know the local’s number up north, but, from Shenandoah to Roanoke there was #101 & #102.
If you don’t have Norfolk & Western’s Shenandoah Valley Line, by Mason Y. Cooper (Norfolk & Western Historical Society, Inc., 1998), you need to get it.
Tom
Later on in the diesel era #96 was dropped and replaced by #17 & #18 which was a joint N&W/Reading train using N&W power and a Reading caboose.
I have known 88 to run in as many as four sections out of Roanoke. Northbound coal & southbound empty hoppers ran as extras as did the grain trains.
Cooper’s book is good to have, but, with a few mistakes.
Type in N&W Freight Trains on Google.