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2015, Bellevue will be the largest of the rail- road’s 12 classification yards. NS says that currently over 100 trains each day pass through the city, which is located about 45 miles southeast of Toledo. N&W built the cur- rent facility in 1966 on the site of a former Nickel Plate Road yard after the N&W-NKP- Wabash merger in 1964. Bellevue serves Nor- folk Southern’s ex-Nickel Plate main line run- ning east to Cleveland and Buffalo and west to Fort Wayne and Chicago; the ex-Pennsylvania Railroad route north to the Lake Erie docks at Sandusky and south to Columbus, Ohio; and the former Wheeling & Lake Erie west to Tole- do. In addition, Wheeling & Lake Erie comes in from Brewster and Pittsburgh to inter- change with NS at Bellevue.
STEAM TO POWER EMPLOYEE TRIPS: Norfolk Southern will operate employee appre- ciation specials over each of its eleven divi- sions this summer. In the northern part of the system, they'll be pulled behind Nickel Plate Road Berkshire No. 765 in July, August, and September. Owned, maintained, and operated by the Fort Wayne Railroad Historical Society, No. 765 will operate on the Lake Division on July 21-22; the Dearborn Div. on July 28-29; the Pocahontas Div. on August 4-5, the Pitts- burgh Div. on August 11-12; the Harrisburg Div. on August 18-19, and the Illinois Div. on September 8-9. The Tennessee Valley Railroad Museum's Southern Railway 2-8-0 No. 630 will handle the employee trips in the South. No. 630 will operate on the Georgia Division on June 2-3; the Piedmont Div. on June 9-10; the Virginia Div. on June 30-July 1; the Central Div. on July 14-15; and the Alabama Div. on Septem- ber 15-16.
West Virginia Railroad Museum
BEVERLY SITE IS CHOSEN: The West Vir- ginia Railroad Museum has purchased proper- ty in Beverly,
W.Va., which includes the site of the former Western Maryland depot and is large enough to accommodate the museum’s 90-foot turntable, currently stored in Elkins. The museum had intended to purchase and oc- cupy part of the former WM yard in Elkins, but was not able to meet all the planning require- ments of the Randolph County Development Authority, which controls the former WM prop- erty. RCDA required not only a preliminary plan for the proposed site, which had been pre- pared, but also a schedule delineating when buildings and roads would be built. WVRM notes that the Beverly site, less than ten miles south of Elkins, is cheaper, above the Tygart Valley River flood plain, and is in an historic community which wants to have the museum located there.
Whippany Railway Museum
STEAM REBUILD PROGRESSES: The restoration to operation of the Whippany (N.J.) Railway Museum’s ex-Virginia Blue Ridge 0-6-0 No. 4039 is moving ahead. By early May, steel had been cut and plates were being rolled to begin construction of the locomotive’s new boil- er, and on April 26 the driving wheels re- turned to Whippany from Albany, N.Y., after
Lehigh Valley SW1 Returns to Service
LEHIGH VALLEY SW1 NO. 112 was mechanically restored by Pennsy Railcar Restorations at the Black River & Western shop in Ringoes, N.J., over the winter and made its flawless maiden run (shown at Flemington) on April 27, 2012. The 73-year old EMD was found at Horsehead Industries in Rockwood, Tenn., and was moved to New Jersey in 2010 after having its original solid bearing trucks swapped out for a set with roller bearings. The unit will see occasional service on the BR&W and will eventually be painted in its red, gray, yellow, and black 1939 delivery scheme.
Long Trains Start Running on a Short Line
NORFOLK SOUTHERN has started running unit coal trains over the Kiski Junction Railroad using KJRY crews between the NS connection at Kiskimenetas Junction, Penn., and the Rosebud Coal mine at Logansport. On March 29, 2012 the first loaded train, symboled 518 and powered by NS ES44DC No. 7647, waited to be recrewed on the main alongside KJRY equipment at the Schenley passenger station with 40 loads and a locomotive on the other end. NS crews used the short consist to train KJRY employees; in regular service the coal loads are symboled 516 and run with 65 cars from Logansport to Blairsville, Penn. The track was upgraded last year and 9.5 miles were relaid over the grade from Schenley to Logansport, which was abandoned by Conrail in the late 1980s. The entire main line was rebuilt using welded rail and steel ties on deep ballast..
being machined. The spring rigging has also been overhauled and is ready for installation. The locomotive was built for the U.S Army Transportation Corps by Alco in 1942 and its restoration is being conducted under the aus- pices of Rob Mangels and Transportation Inno- vation Specialists of St. Paul, Minn. The loco-
motive will operate out of Whippany over the Morristown & Erie, where it ran with ex- Southern Railway 2-8-0 No. 385 on the Morris County Central tourist line from 1966 to 1973. Also part of the museum’s collection, the 1907 Baldwin Consolidation remains on static dis- play at Whippany.
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ADAM STEUBGEN
WALT LANKENAU
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