C&O 614 to VMT

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  Last summer, a weekend of special events on the South Branch Valley was 
advertised as featuring WM Scenic RR's 2-8-0.  That would have required CSX 
to tow the 2-8-0 from Cumberland to Green Spring, about 13 miles.  That was 
wishful thinking on someone's part, because it never happened.  As for 614 
pulling the proposed Greenbrier Express, that is an even greater pipedream. 
Besides getting CSX cooperation, the locomotive hasn't operated in years. 
Real $$$ to restore it to operation.

--Rick Morrison


 Steven

>   Where do you get this CSX routing  NS move all the

> way as I see it ?  Commonwealth pilots on all there locomotives.

>

> Larry Evans

> Kenova. W.Va

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>> It is highly doubtful as the route is mostly over CSX's trackage and

>> CSX has an adamant no-steam policy, unlike NS which has recently

>> lightened up by allowing movements of SP 4449 over the rails during

>> Trainfestival 2009 and with Nickle Plate 765 in recent years,

>> culminating with the announcement of the return of steam to NS in 2011

>> with the program co-sponsored by NS and the Tennessee Valley Railroad

>> Museum in Chattanooga. It will be interesting to see where the VMT

>> places the 614 in relation to the 611 and 1218. One observation I've

>> noticed is the C&O 614's solid cast pilot looks virtually identical to

>> those on 611 and 1218, I am curious if they were built by the same

>> company? Or were those on the A and J both fabricated in the Roanoke

>> Shops?

>>

>> Steven Ashley

>>

>> On 12/2/10, NW Mailing List <nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org> wrote:

>>> Will it pull the luxury train?

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>>> Christopher J. Bunsey

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