Here’s a shot my father took when he was 16 of the The Tennessean heading north out of Kemper Street.
I’ve tried, but I can’t read the number on the J.
http://knox.rrpicturearchives.net/showPicture.aspx?id=1802393
I’m curious if anyone knows what that big building in the back is. It looks like it’s still there on Google Earth.
Charles Freericks
Charles. This brings up a very interesting question. Did SOU or N&W crews operate the Js to Monroe for engine and crew changes. The thread on Cascade crews someone mentioned that as happening. If so then how could SOU claim that they had ended all steam52 because the Js operated untin about Jan 1957? I also know that until steam operations ended in Bristol that SOU local crews out of Bristol operated south of yard limits on SOU tracks.
I have no stated information on the matter, but since Monroe was the south end of the Washington Division of the Southern, I would expect the N&W enginemen, and not Southern Danville Division enginemen, to run their locomotives to and from Monroe. 7.4 miles is not a very long day for an engine crew, even if the crew made a roundtrip of 14.8 miles (this could have been done). The article on the N&W engines in, as I recall, the November, 1954, issue of Trains mentioned only the assignment of engines, and not of the crews. If these engines were handled by N&W crews, the Southern could rightly claim that it had ended steam operations.
The first day that Southern diesels ran through between Washington and their destinations was 1/1/1958. It was a sad day for me, since I could no longer go into downtown Bristol to admire the J’s.
Johnny
It sure appears {what I can see}, not to be 611.
I don’t think you’ll get anything off the scan. I pulled out my grandmother’s magnifying glass/flashlight contraption and put it against the original print. I couldn’t tell with that. If you made me guess, I would say the middle number is a 1 and the third number is not a 1, but I can’t get any further than that.
I presume you mean now. If I was headed down that way again, I’d take a look, but that trip’s not on the calendar.
I actually did mean then… someone answered me directly and I changed the caption. When I first posted I didn’t know.
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Nice pic Charles,I wish I would have been around when these trains ran[sigh] have recently decided to run steam on my layout,I think its neat to watch all those moving parts work in unison…
I have to agree with the above post, It is a great picture and I also would like to have seen this in real life Larry
Larry, I don’t think that I saw #46 leave more than once, but I saw #42 leave Bristol many times. The train would come in behind two E8’s–and leave behind a single J. It was a wonderful experience to stand by that engine and watch and hear it leave with upwards of sixteen cars behind it.
Johnny