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While all this is well and good, there is still a bunch of work to do on
the Y to move it. To start with reportedly there is a crack in the frame or
cylinder and I have heard that a side-rod also has serious issues.

None of these are insurmountable and the various parties will, of course,
do everything to fix them for the 1,000 mile or so rail journey.

Now let's have fun speculating about the routes they'll take and especially
on home rails before returning "home" to Roanoke. Do I smell "photo
opportunity" somewhere out on the road? Bristol Line? Shenandoah Line?
Southern main? Who knows at this point, however, ..........

Interesting that as for the public relations department, NS moves steamers
dead-in-train. So does UP as in the recent Big Boy. CSX and the move of the
1309 from Baltimore to Cumberland -- flatcar or whatever but not on it own
wheels on CSX . Nice PR move there.

Bob Cohen
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