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<DIV>Please save these type of posts for April 1st... Thanks.</DIV>
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<DIV>(The real 611 was buried in the Smith Mountain Lake dam with 1,924 tuscan
red color chip (color drift) cards...) Also unknown to many historians is that
the water part of the tender was filled with brass heart locks with keys,
lanterns and globes and welded shut just before the concrete was poured.</DIV>
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<DIV>In a message dated 10/18/2009 9:11:16 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
nw-mailing-list@nwhs.org writes:</DIV>
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<DIV>I had the pleasure a few years ago of attending an
environmental course with a member of the Norfolk Southern environmental
department. I struck up a conversation with him and during the course of
that conversation he said that the 611 was really the 610. Some time
prior to or at the time of the decision to preserve a J-class, a high ranking
Norfolk & Western executive ordered the number change. If my
acquaintance gave a name of the executive I cannot recall it.
Does anyone have more details about this or is this just an "urban legend"
associated with 611?</DIV>
<DIV>Rick Huddle</DIV>
<DIV>N&WHS #3689</DIV>
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href="mailto:nw-mailing-list@nwhs.org">NW Mailing List</A> </DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Thursday, October 15, 2009 1:19
PM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: J #604/611 Data</DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial>I've always heard that the 611 was preserved because
it was the last J remaining and O. Winston Link made a personal appeal to
Stuart Saunders to save it. I'm sure the Link Museum can provide more
definitive information.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial>Sam Putney</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A
title=mailto:nw-mailing-list@nwhs.org
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Wednesday, October 14, 2009
8:16 PM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> RE: J #604/611 Data</DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV>I will provide my private email address so those who
wish to reply to this message can reply to me privately, especially those
who would like to submit information for my 611 book.<BR>Lois J.
Ponton<BR>Friends of the 611<BR><A title=mailto:ljp611@ntelos.net
href="mailto:ljp611@ntelos.net">ljp611@ntelos.net</A><BR><BR> <BR>
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To: <A title=mailto:nw-mailing-list@nwhs.org
href="mailto:nw-mailing-list@nwhs.org">nw-mailing-list@nwhs.org</A><BR>Subject:
RE: J #604/611 Data<BR>Date: Tue, 29 Sep 2009 01:56:52 +0000<BR>From: <A
title=mailto:nw-mailing-list@nwhs.org
href="mailto:nw-mailing-list@nwhs.org">nw-mailing-list@nwhs.org</A><BR><BR>
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First, I have a interesting question:<BR>Why was 604 the first J to go to
scrap?<BR>Second, in my completion of the book Midnight on the Pocahontas
(about 611's 1956 wreck) I have to cover why the 611 was preserved. I
would like this to be a private conversation, but I would like to speak
with former N&W employees and the like who have information on why the
611 is still with us today. The subject can also be discussed on the board
at the moderator's wish.<BR>Lois J. Ponton<BR>Friends of the
611<BR><BR> <BR>> To: nw-mailing-list@nwhs.org<BR>> Subject:
Re: J #604 builders plate<BR>> Date: Mon, 21 Sep 2009 22:33:39
-0400<BR>> From: nw-mailing-list@nwhs.org<BR>> <BR>>
Jimmy<BR>> K2 Would have had the regular Alco Brooks rectangle plate,
K2a Would <BR>> have a regular 9 1/4 Baldwin<BR>> round plate. Some
that I have seen were chromed but not all of them may have <BR>> worn
off like most of the<BR>> Js did.<BR>> <BR>> Larry Evans<BR>>
Kenova,WV<BR>> <BR>> <BR>> ----- Original Message ----- <BR>>
From: "NW Mailing List" <nw-mailing-list@nwhs.org><BR>> To: "NW
Mailing List" <nw-mailing-list@nwhs.org><BR>> Sent: Monday,
September 21, 2009 8:10 PM<BR>> Subject: RE: J #604 builders
plate<BR>> <BR>> <BR>> Any particular reason they moved
them?<BR>> <BR>> Mike Weeks<BR>> Greenville NC <BR>
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