Could it have ever been that a N&W Y3 2-8-8-2 got paired up with a VGN Y3? Thinking of modeling this, but not sure about it. They merged in 1959 and quit steam in 1960, so I'm thinking maybe. Thanks.
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The Y3's were all out of service by 1958. There was at least one Y3a still in service during 1959. None were in service by 1960. I would say it would have been highly unlikely, but who knows? I have seen a picture of a N&W Trainmaster in consist with another FM TM in Virginian livery.
Gilly
If I recall correctly, the Virginian Y3's were retired in 1955. Plus, they came by way of the Santa Fe in 1947.
Being they were two separate railroads at the time and N&W's prime freight power at the time were the Y6b's an A's, I would doubt there would be any doubleheading of Virginian and N&W locomotives.
Rusty
VGN was out of the steam business by 1957, and that was an 0-8-0. Think they were more or less competitors prior to the merger. But what the heck, it's your railroad - operate what you like!
Thanks all. How 'bout a double -header of N&W Y3's? More likely?
Suspect Y3's did double head, but probably in much earlier times, like the teens/1920's/early 30's. Y3's in more recent times seemed to show up shoving the hump, in yards. Perhaps mine runs, too.
Thanks Mark. Then with the right time period in mind reasonable to assume plausible. Thanks.
I vaguely recall that although retired a few (2-6-6-6), BAs (2-8-4) and PAs (4-6-2) survived on the Virginian property until the Virginian and N&W merged.
There were instances of N&W trains being diverted onto VGN, and I believe there is a picture of one such incident in Reid's book.
