Thanks for posting your fine pictures Steve. I like this one because of the rarity of diesel shots on N&W in those days. I have long wondered if the RS-3s were in general service at one time. By the time I started takiing pictures they were pretty much confined to the eastern VA area.
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I agree with Sid---excellent photography! The N&W RS-3s were the road's first diesels. I never saw them in Norton, but clearly, they were there! A little steam was still working the CV at the time, and the passenger local would be pulled by Pacific 578 into 1958. The L&N was dieselized by this time, however, as the last "Big Emma" 2-8-4 worked into Norton in the spring of 1956. Notice those gob piles (coal refuse) in the distance. Locally, they were jokingly called "Wharton's Wonders." They were removed many years later, and today four-laned U.S. 58 Alternate cuts through that very hill.
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