St. Louis Museum of Transportation and Virginia Museum of Transportation ...

Fri May 30 07:54:26 EDT 2014

Gordon:

Other than interchanging the Simple and Compound numbers?

Interesting.  Thanks.  I hope you've alerted them?

Dave Phelps

In a message dated 5/30/2014 5:38:01 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time,  
nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org writes:

Regarding N&W Y3a 2050 at the Illinois Railway  Museum, does anyone see 
anything wrong with the following statistic for the  2050 from that museum's 
website:

    Tractive  Effort: 114154lbs S / 136985lbs  C

Gordon Hamilton

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> Did they forget  about the Y at the Illinois Railway Museum?
> Kurt Kramke 
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> On 05/29/14, NW Mailing List wrote:
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> Wow! This is very exciting. I will have to pay visit to Roanoke again  to 
see the big 3 together again.
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>  Subject: [NSInfo] St. Louis Museum of Transportation and Virginia Museum 

> of
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> Transportation to trade historic  locomotives
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> St. Louis Museum of Transportation and Virginia Museum of  
> Transportation to trade historic locomotives
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> NORFOLK, VA. – The 
> Museum of 
>  Transportation, St. Louis, and the 
> Virginia Museum of 
>  Transportation are in discussions to bring Norfolk and Western Y6a 
>  steam engine #2156, currently in the St. Louis museum, back to its place 

> of origin at Roanoke, Va., on a five-year loan for display at the  
> Virginia museum, in a transaction facilitated by Norfolk  Southern.
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> In exchange, the Virginia museum  will send to St. Louis a Southern 
> Railway diesel General Motors EMD  FTB unit to complement the St. Louis 
> museum’s FTA demonstration  unit.
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> “This will reunite the last surviving  Y-class locomotive, one of the 
> hardest pulling steam locomotives ever  built, with the J-611 and the 
> A-1218 in Roanoke, where all three were  designed and built by Norfolk 
and 
> Western,” said Molly Butterworth,  cultural site manager for the St. 
Louis 
> Museum of Transportation. ”In  return, our historic FTA, built in 1939 to 
> demonstrate to the rail  industry the efficiency of diesel power, will be 
> reunited with its  complimentary B unit.”
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> “We are thrilled to  welcome the Y6a home again,” said Bev Fitzpatrick, 
> executive director  of the Virginia Museum of Transportation. “We’re 
> grateful to the St.  Louis Museum of Transportation for this opportunity 
> to reunite three  powerful sisters of steam in their home town.”
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> The Museum of Transportation, a St. Louis County Park in west St.  Louis 
> County, Mo., houses what has been recognized as one of the  largest and 
> best collections of transportation vehicles in the world.  With over 70 
> locomotives, half of them "one-of-a-kind" or "sole  
> survivors" of their type, the Museum has one of the most complete  
> collections of American railroad motive power, and its collections of  
> automobiles, buses, streetcars, aircraft, horse-drawn vehicles, and  
> riverboat materials are constantly expanding to reflect the  
ever-changing 
> nature of transportation.
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> The Virginia Museum of Transportation, Virginia’s official  
transportation 
> museum, is home to two of the most powerful steam  locomotives in 
> existence today: the N&W Class A 1218 and the  N&W Class J 611. 
> The Museum attracts visitors of all ages from  across the U.S. and around 
> the world. Through exhibits, artifacts,  and an outstanding collection of 
> rail equipment, cars, trucks,  airplanes, and more, the Museum tells the 
> story of Virginia’s rich  transportation history.
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> Norfolk  Southern Corporation (NYSE: NSC) is one of the nation’s 
> premier  transportation companies. Its Norfolk Southern Railway Company 
>  subsidiary operates approximately 20,000 
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> route miles in 22  states and the District of Columbia, serves every 
> major container  port in the eastern United States, and provides 
efficient 
> connections  to other rail carriers. Norfolk Southern operates the most 
> extensive  intermodal network in the East and is a major transporter of 
> coal,  automotive, and industrial products.
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