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1939 NY World's Fair - Trains on Display 2
The Transportation Zone (Zone 6)
1939 New York World's Fair
Railroads - Trains on Display
Canadian National Railway
Delaware & Hudson
Long Island RR
Norfolk & Western Railroad
Norfolk & Western Railroad
Norfolk & Western Railroad Engine #1206 which was used in heavy service hauling coal from the mountains of West Virginia to the coast (Norfolk, Virginia) (September 8, 1940)
Photo W003 by Winnie Ervin, from the collection of Dr. William R. Hanson. Norfolk & Western Railroad Engine #1206
Photo W009- by Winnie Ervin, from the collection of Dr. William R. Hanson. Norfolk & Western Railroad Engine #1206
Long Island RR
LIRR (PRR System) Rotary snow plow #193. The plow is a boiler covered locomotive with the rotary plow placed in front of the pilot and the controls in the housing on top of the boilers. Use in places of very deep or heavy drifts of snow. (August 25, 1940)
Photo W008 - by Winnie Ervin from the collection of Dr. William R. Hanson. Long Island snow plow # 193.
Canadian National Railway
The state-of-the-art # 6400 was on loan from the Canadian National Railway for the 1939 New York World's Fair..
Canadian National 6400 - Photo 194
Delaware & Hudson
Side view of a Delaware & Hudson Streamlined Coach #1511. Oct 6, 1940
Photo W020 - by Howard from the collection of Dr. William R. Hanson.- Delaware & Hudson Streamlined Coach #1511.