128 is a K-2a 4-8-2 built by Baldwin in 1923 --- it only looks like a J 4-8-4. I shot the eastbound train at Roanoke, Va. while waiting for a train to Lynchburg and Washington,D.C. (In fact, I think this is the train I rode but didn't mark my slide -- the K-2a was replaced by a Southern diesel at Monroe, Va.) Note the milk cans and the large amount of express and mail. The Roanoke Shops, which built so many N&W steamers, is only few hundred yards behind my back, situated between the mainline to Norfolk and the tracks on the right which go to Haggerstown,MD. The bridge is Williamson Ave. and you can see the tip of the Hotel Roanoke -- its still a busy railroad site but it's hard to recognize the location today.

Photographed by Edward Ozog, May 5, 1957.
Added to the photo archive by Edward Ozog, August 25, 2009.
Railroad: Norfolk and Western Railroad.

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