Southern Railway 2-8-2 Mikado 4501 was pulling the excursion in the 1960's, 70's, 80's and 90's and she continued on excursion duties all the way until 1998 after Norfolk Southern Steam Program ended in 1994.
Were these Norfolk Southern steam excursions? Excursions like these have come back to NS with 630 for now, and 4501 in the future. Did NS allow any old coaches on the train back then? It looked like there were a bunch of steel heavyweight open window coaches with friction bearing trucks from the 1920's on the train. Now, the new Norfolk Southern excursion train has mostly streamline coaches with sealed windows and roller bearing trucks from 1950's. Friction bearings were banned in 1994 I heard.
rwk360 yes. They had open cars and heavyweight southern coaches up until the swamp Derailment in 1986. The missionary Ridge and queen and crescent club were scrapped on site. After 86, open air cars were permanently banned while heavyweights were limited to only using tight lock instead of knuckle couplers.
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Southern Railway 2-8-2 Mikado 4501 was pulling the excursion in the 1960's, 70's, 80's and 90's and she continued on excursion duties all the way until 1998 after Norfolk Southern Steam Program ended in 1994.
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Were these Norfolk Southern steam excursions? Excursions like these have come back to NS with 630 for now, and 4501 in the future. Did NS allow any old coaches on the train back then? It looked like there were a bunch of steel heavyweight open window coaches with friction bearing trucks from the 1920's on the train. Now, the new Norfolk Southern excursion train has mostly streamline coaches with sealed windows and roller bearing trucks from 1950's. Friction bearings were banned in 1994 I heard.
rwk360 yes. They had open cars and heavyweight southern coaches up until the swamp Derailment in 1986. The missionary Ridge and queen and crescent club were scrapped on site. After 86, open air cars were permanently banned while heavyweights were limited to only using tight lock instead of knuckle couplers.