[EXTERNAL] Re: Norfolk Question: Passenger Engines

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Jack,
     Did you read the first part of his post..*/."I don’t have exact 
knowledge of the next question, but based on this clip of an article in 
the N&W Magazine, January 1953, entitled “A Ride on the 601”/*

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Jimmy Lisle*/
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On 10/14/2020 3:38 PM, NW Mailing List via NW-Mailing-List wrote:
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> ​Ken
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> Where did you find this story? I would like to read the whole thing.
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> Jack Fletcher
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> … Past Gilmerton, and the new electric power plant, past the 
> fertilizer factories and into South Norfolk goes the train, at reduced 
> speed now. It is darker, and the lights in the train show up in a long 
> row behind when the engine takes the curve off Bridge No. 5. Slowly 
> now the train edges along the platform where wives and mothers and 
> fathers look eagerly into the car windows. No. 601 closes almost to 
> the final end of the track, seems to sigh, then almost re­laxes; Mr. 
> Roberts and Mr. May climb down.….
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> The story is a cab ride from Roanoke to Norfolk, beginning at Shaffers 
> Crossing.
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> Best
> Ken Miller
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