NW-Mailing-List Digest, Vol 102, Issue 63

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Mason,

Where is the bridge in your photo?

Gerry

Gerard J. Fitzgerald
Charlottesville, Virginia


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> Today's Topics:

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>    1. Re: 2156 and 2050 restoration (NW Mailing List)

>    2. Happy Holidays to all (NW Mailing List)

>    3. Re: Chrismas Eve - Bluefield (NW Mailing List)

>    4. RE: Merry Christmas to N&W groups (NW Mailing List)

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> Date: Wed, 25 Dec 2013 14:05:05 -0500 (EST)

> From: NW Mailing List <nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org>

> Subject: Re: 2156 and 2050 restoration

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> I have been reading posts on this restoration thread for a while now. Lynn

> has pretty much nailed a point and someone else also made a point about a

> wreck  and the equipment needed along with the right track. That all being

> said one  only has to look to the left side of our country! The UP's steam

> program as far  as I understand it from what I have read (IE no actual

> experience!) looks like  the blueprint for any large steam operation.

> Let's face

> facts here "Only" a  large corporation like UP and hopefully NS can fully

> shoulder the immense cost  and logistics needed to fully make these huge

> engines

> run! No club or museum  could even consider putting a BigBoy back in

> service

> let alone a Challenger and  another Loco at the same time let alone any one

> of them. That's why UP has a  "STEAM OPERATIONS DEPT" with a real budget!

>

> The one fact that cannot be denied is that without the love labor and

> financial support of countless clubs museums and smalltown USA's out there

> "NONE" of these huge engines would even exist! They would have met the

> scrappers

>  torch decades ago!

>

> I hope and pray and donate to one day see 611 under steam again! I missed

> her last time! I will not make that mistake again!

> Ray Russell Sr.

> Modeling the N & W Pocahontas Division circa 1958 in HO

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> In a message dated 12/20/2013 7:20:57 A.M. Eastern Standard Time,

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

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> This is the kind of engine that would run better  on mainline excursions

> than the shorter IRM runs. If anything happens it  should need stronger

> operational support if it can happen. The success of 765,  611, 1218,

> restoring

> 2050 would need to match that.

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> cheers

>

> -Lynn-

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> Message: 2

> Date: Wed, 25 Dec 2013 10:12:10 -0500

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> Subject: Happy Holidays to all

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> Well:

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> It's cold outside, maybe 35-40 f high today, no snow on the ground, no ice

> on the roads for all those driving visitors to grandma's house, wherever

> that might be, in the Baltimore-Washington, DC region.

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> For those of you appreciative of this "traditional type" of weather here in

> the Northern Hemisphere, Happy and Safe Holidays for this and every day now

> and forever into the new year.

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> For those of you in warmer climates -- you don't know what you're really

> missing!

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> Happy Holidays to all.

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> Bob Cohen

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> Date: Wed, 25 Dec 2013 10:28:24 -0500

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> Subject: Re: Chrismas Eve - Bluefield

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> Thanks Roger! Very nice.

> Merry Christmas!

> Charlie Long

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> On Wed, Dec 25, 2013 at 12:36 AM, NW Mailing List

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> >  Beautiful picture!  Thank you!

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> > And a Merry Christmas to you and yours!

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> > Dave Phelps

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> >  In a message dated 12/24/2013 5:50:21 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,

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

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> >    Took this shot at Bluefield just after noon from Grant street bridge

> > looking west today (Christmas Eve). All quiet. Didn't see anything moving

> > anywhere. The units were slumbering. NS Heritage unit Conrail 8098 is

> > visible. Not visible is Lehigh Valley 8104.

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> > Merry Christmas!!

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> > - Roger Link

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> Date: Wed, 25 Dec 2013 11:59:23 -0800

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> Subject: RE: Merry Christmas to N&W groups

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> Nathan and NW Groups,

>         It (was) the last of its type of construction (cantilever arch, I

> believe), in the entire state. It was saved as an Engineering Landmark by

> the Virginia Department of Transportation. See attached photo.

> Best,

> Mason

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