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Discussion relating to the NS operations. Official web site can be found here: NSCORP.COM.
 #32742  by Andyt293
 
Drove through Crewe Virginia last week and near the center of town (on the edge of the NS yard) is the Crewe Railroad Museum. There is track set up for display purposesand on it is a low short hood Geep painted black and lettered Norfolk and Western. I didn't the N&W had any low short hood units? Did they?

 #32757  by TerryC
 
They had low nosed SD40-2's after they ordered 28 high nosed versions.

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 #33332  by ACLfan
 
The devilish thing about railroad museums is that they somehow don't think that they need to be accurate about the details of the locomotive units in their museum!

Examples on inexcusable misrepresentation:

A former Alaska RR GP7 repainted in Atlantic Coast Line purple color scheme, at the Gold Coast RR Museum in Miami, FL. This unit NEVER belonged to the ACL!

A fomer New York Central Alco RS3 in Seaboard Air Line's pullman green and yellow color scheme, at the Florida Gulf Coast Railroad Museum, near Bradenton, FL. This unit NEVER belonged to the SAL!

It's sorta like finding an old coat, and claiming that it was George Washington's or Abe Lincoln's, or both! No matter how you look at it, it is being just plain DISHONEST!

So, I wouldn't be surprised at all if the low nosed unit you saw actually belonged to any number of possible railroads (whoever they bought it from, or gave it to the museum).

Why would they do something like this? Because they were afraid that if they were honest and displayed a former Timbuktu & Kalamazoo RR unit in its T&K RR colors, no one would want to come to their museum to see it!

They wanted to have locomotives that their visitors could "relate to", even if they never existed in reality!

Sad, REALLY SAD!

ACLfan
 #57229  by 2nd trick op
 
Granted, not all the exhibits may be completely accurate in a historic sense, but they attract enough flower-pickers to cover the overhead and provide a place for the rivet-counters to congregate.

In Luzerne County, Penna, where Andyt293 and I both live, the courthouse is a showplace....unique architecture, lots of marble, and a series of murals. Only those of us who visit the place regularly know that two of the murals' subjects have two left feet.

A little something extra for the "illuminatii". :-)

 #264899  by NSPeon
 
Crewe ------ The armpit of the Virginia Division..........at least they finally got the crews down there a nicer hotel. When I got cut off back in 2000 (after the Conrail disaster--how do you lose an entire train?) the hotel owner was so nice, he made sure there was a crack at the bottom of the door high enough that the rats wouldnt bump their heads on the way into the rooms. Hated that dang place...........

 #265505  by Nelson Bay
 
Regarding the old hotel in Crewe- did they tear it down or did it just fall down??? Spent some days there way back when- in 66 & 67. The special breakfast was superb- brains, eggs, grits, tators, toast and all the bad coffee you wanted for $1.25.