C&O 614 to VMT

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Please let me add my 2 cents to shed additional light on the "most modern
steam locomotive" issue.

1)  As built in the 1950's the last N&W J's benefitted from additional years
of engineering advancement, when compared with the 1948 C&O 614.

2)  However, as part of the ACE program the C&O 614 was highly modified in
the early 1980's, again benefitting from several more decades of engineering
advancement.
Hope this helps.

Patrick Whalen
Berlin, MD


On Wed, Dec 8, 2010 at 9:36 PM, NW Mailing List <nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org>wrote:


> Was 614 the last steam *passenger* locomotive built in the U.S.?

> Just asking.

>

> Frank Bongiovanni

>

>   On Wed, Dec 8, 2010 at 1:57 PM, NW Mailing List <

> nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org> wrote:

>

>>   Jimmy, thanks for the reply. I stand corrected. It's funny that you

>> ended your message with the "self destruct" passage from "Mission

>> Impossible", as I got into broadcasting after being furloughed from Norfolk

>> Southern. I do a lot of radio/tv commercials, as well as voiceover work for

>> The History Channel, etc. So getting to the point, My last voice work was

>> to read a fake "Mission Impossible" opening for the City of Virginia Beach's

>> cable channel. John Katz, Virginia Beach

>>

>> ------------------------------

>> To: nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org

>> Subject: Re: C&O 614 to VMT

>> Date: Tue, 7 Dec 2010 18:20:25 -0500

>>

>> From: nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org

>>

>>   *"If somebody read another article that added the qualifier "the most

>> modern commercially built steam locomotive", then produce that article, or

>> were you just ticked because I insulted the lame stream media."*

>> **

>> Mr. Phelps,

>>     Yes, there was an article that specifically said that the 614 was the

>> "last commercially built locomotive in America". When I first read the

>> blurb, I thought the same way you did. Then after reading it over the

>> "commercially" qualifier finally registered in my mind, so I let it go at

>> that.

>>     Now, whether or not it was the very "last commercially built

>> locomotive", I have no idea. Where said article is, I also have no idea. I

>> came across it via a link to some on-line forum to which I don't subscribe.

>>

>> "This message will self destruct in five seconds"

>>

>> Jimmy Lisle

>>

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