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The Norfolk and Western train was called the "Pocahontas" using a Class J locomotive streamlined 4-8-4 built in 1950. The photo below could very well be that train as we traveled along the Ohio River East of Cinncinnati in the spring of 1954. This was my first trip away from the mid-west or trip as a U.S. Sailor. 
After being transport from the Great Lakes Naval Training Center to Chicago, I boarded the train at the La Salle Street Station. Traveling South into Indiana then into Ohio where it became late in the evening near Cinncinnati. We crossed the Ohio River near Ironton, OH
at a station much like the one pictured below. 
At day break we were traveling very slow through the West Virginia hills. This was my first look at how many of the people lived back in the hills. It was very late this day when I arrived in Norfolk. |