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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>There are so many things they'd have to do to pull
that off, it just wouldn't be worth it. You'd have to start by changing
out the tender, then start filing off numbers on parts, etc. Remember,
there were several significant changes between the 611-613 subclass and the
previous class. And some were pretty visible.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Reminds me of the story I was told by a retired
railroader (or so he claimed to be) when I was riding the last Pocahontas
between Welch and Crewe. He assured me that most of N&W's modern
steamers (A's, J's and Y6's) hadn't really been scrapped. On the orders of
the defense department they had been stored serviceable in a hollowed out
mountain somewhere in West Virginia. So, I guess like that moon landing
was faked on a Hollywood backlot, all those photos of locos in various states of
disassembly were faked with cardboard cutouts.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Sam Putney</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Sunday, October 18, 2009 5:50
PM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: J #604/611 Data</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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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Thursday, October 15, 2009 1:19
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<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>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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RE: J #604/611 Data<BR>Date: Tue, 29 Sep 2009 01:56:52 +0000<BR>From: <A
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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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