Happy Sunday everyone!
Here are the 3 best photos and my video that I took on my visit to the SRC yesterday.
On a side note, N&W 475 was steamed up this week as 90 was down for her monthly inspection. Looks like it will be the Mollie and the Decapod this summer for anyone who is wondering.
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Please, the N&W 4-8-0 locomotives were "M Class". Don't know where that "mollie" term EVER came from.
Very nice photos & video!
LOL. Me neither!
Thanks for the compliment Jack!
Hot Water posted:Please, the N&W 4-8-0 locomotives were "M Class". Don't know where that "mollie" term EVER came from.
Very nice photos & video!
It is mentioned on page 95 in the "Last Steam Railroad in America" that the 4-8-0 M class were nicknamed "Mollies".
This is O.Winston Link's 2nd book on the end of N&W steam, for those less informed.
Author Tom Garver surely got the term from someone...
Ah! Now I remember where I read they were called "Mollies".
Thanks for the info!
Borden Tunnel posted:Hot Water posted:Please, the N&W 4-8-0 locomotives were "M Class". Don't know where that "mollie" term EVER came from.
Very nice photos & video!
It is mentioned on page 95 in the "Last Steam Railroad in America" that the 4-8-0 M class were nicknamed "Mollies".
This is O.Winston Link's 2nd book on the end of N&W steam, for those less informed.
Author Tom Garver surely got the term from someone...
Well, Mr. Garver didn't "get the term", as a Kenova N&W railfan by the name of Tim Henseley who did the writing on the "Steam Steel and Stars" book, that featured a lot of Mr. Link's work, came up with the term "mollie". Mr. Henseley claims that such term was used around the Kenova area.
I never heard the term "Mollie" during my visits to various N&W locations in 1957, nor when I was assigned to the EMD GP30 delivery in 1962 at Roanoke and Portsmouth, Ohio. Being the "steam enthusiast" that I was, I made it a point to converse with any and all N&W steam qualified men on the N&W ever day, from Hagerstown, MD to Roanoke, to Bluefield, to Portsmouth and NEVER heard that term used in reference to the M Class 4-8-0s.
In addition, Mr. Ed King, who was born & raised on the Abington Branch, and who I consider the BEST living authority on all N&W steam related subjects, never hear the term "mollie" from any N&W personnel. It is truly a "railfan" term.
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