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<h1><b>Transportation museum to get historic steam engine</b></h1>By
Kevin Kittredge | The Roanoke Times<br><br>
The Virginia Museum of Transportation will receive an historic steam
locomotive, the M2c #1151, that was made in Roanoke in 1911.<br>
<font size=2>Several steam locomotives rusting in a Roanoke scrapyard
have finally found homes.<br><br>
In a complex arrangement involving the Virginia Museum of Transportation
in Roanoke, The Railroad Museum of Virginia in Portsmouth and Goshen
businessman William Harris, the locomotives will be removed from the
former Virginia Scrap Iron and Metal Co. in the coming weeks and
distributed around the state. The Roanoke museum will receive an historic
steam locomotive, the M2c #1151, that was made in Roanoke in
1911.<br><br>
The dilapidated engine will require restoration work, which could be a
lengthy and expensive process, given its condition. The other locomotives
need restoration work as well. "The goal right now for us is to save
them," said Bev Fitzpatrick, executive director of the
transportation museum.<br><br>
The old locomotives are often referred to by rail buffs as "The Lost
Engines of Roanoke." The yard they sit on off South Jefferson Street
was recently sold to Carilion Clinic, which is building a medical campus
in that area<br>
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