[EXTERNAL] Re: Norfolk Question: Passenger Engines

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Jimmy is correct, I posted that as the first line.

I can put the article in for a reprint in the Arrow or maybe TAF.

Best
Ken

> On Oct 14, 2020, at 4:38 PM, NW Mailing List <nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org> wrote:
> 
> 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”
> 
> Jimmy Lisle
> On 10/14/2020 3:38 PM, NW Mailing List via NW-Mailing-List wrote:
>> ​Ken
>> 
>> Where did you find this story?  I would like to read the whole thing.
>> 
>> Jack Fletcher
>> 
>> 
>> … 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.  ….
>> 
>> The story is a cab ride from Roanoke to Norfolk, beginning at Shaffers Crossing.
>> 
>> Best
>> Ken Miller
>> 
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