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N&W Box Cars:   86'60'50' N&W Covered Hoppers:   AirslideTwo BayThree Bay N&W Coil Steel Cars N&W Cabooses N&W Locomotives
N&W MoW Cars:   Box CarsCovered HoppersGondolasSide Dump CarsFlat CarsTank CarsCranes
Norfolk & Western Index Contemporary Freight Cars Index Photo Index

Norfolk & Western MoW Gondolas

NW 514568 MW
NW 514568 MW NW 514568 was at Bluefield, WV on 26 August 2001. The framing and chains hold a prefabricated track switch at an angle for transportation.

NW 528103 MW
NW 528103 MW NW 528103 MW
NW 528103 MW NW 528103 MW NW 528103 MW
NW 528103 was at Pearisburg, VA on 2 August 2002. This 1357cf class G25 gondola was built by the Virginian Railway at its Princeton shops in 1942. Inside length is 46', and coupled length is 49'6". Originally VGN 22016, from series VGN 22000-22099 (and NW 122000-122099 after the 1960 merger). It acquired its white paint when it was converted to haul wheel sets and renumbered (apparently directly from its VGN number) as NW 590517. It was renumbered again in 9-86 to NW 528103. With a step cut into one side, it survives in service as a companion car for cranes.

NW 528127 MW
NW 528127 MW
NW 528127 MW
NW 527127 was in the yard at Roanoke, VA on 2 June 2001, carrying a non-revenue load of grass and weeds amongst the debris in the bottom of the car.

Gondolas With Water Tanks

NW 590606 MW
NW590606 NW590606 N&W Water Car 590606 at Buena Vista, VA on 24 July 1999. The base G-51 gondola car shows a build date of 6-29.

NW 590628 MW
NW 590628 Water car NW 590628 was at Bluefield, WV on 30 Sepember 2000. The G-52 gondola sports a build date of 6-29, and no rebuild date.


N&W Box Cars:   86'60'50' N&W Covered Hoppers:   AirslideTwo BayThree Bay N&W Coil Steel Cars N&W Cabooses N&W Locomotives
N&W MoW Cars:   Box CarsCovered HoppersGondolasSide Dump CarsFlat CarsTank CarsCranes
Norfolk & Western Index Contemporary Freight Cars Index Photo Index

Joe Shaw -- joeshaw@krunk.org
Last update: Thursday, 23-Jun-2005 19:53:18 EDT