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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>I am not familiar with the roster in the Y Book.
The 2171 could have been scrapped in 5-1970, but I cannot verify this. But that
was not the last Y6b scrapped.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>In late 1975, I walked around both Y6 2143 and
Y6b 2174 in the yard of the Virginia Iron and Metal in Roanoke. I even
walked on top of the boiler of the 2174 and being a bright sunny day, I viewed
the "waffleiron" exhaust ports by looking down the stack. The 2174 had
its tender; the 2143 did not.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>I went overseas in early 2-1976. Soon afterward, I
received a Roanoke Times newspaper clipping dated Friday, February 20,
1976. The clipping was about the scrapyard cutting up the 2174, the last Y6b.
The article stated that the scrapping began on the previous Monday [that would
the February 16th] and that its sister [that would be 2143] had been scrapped a
couple of weeks earlier.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>The 2143 was the last Y6 and the 2174 the last Y6b.
The article also stated that only one other Y6 class was left--that would be the
Y6a 2156 in St. Louis at the National Museum of Transportation. BTW, the 2171
had been in the VI&M, too.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>I understand that there was some effort to save the
2174 but scrap metal values were extremely high in the mid-70s. The figure I
heard was the 2174 was valued at about $50,000 and that the scrapyard had paid
only about $5,000 for itin 1960. If this is so, the scrapyard made a killin' on
this one.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>Bud Jeffries</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Wednesday, October 28, 2009 12:11
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Y6B 2171</DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=3 face="Times New Roman, Times, serif">The Y6b roster on page
118 of the N&W Class Y book from TLC Publishing shows that engine #2171
was not scrapped until May of 1970. Why was this the last Y6b to be
cut-up? Were there any efforts made to save her? I always thought
that all Y6b's were scrapped by the 1960's.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=3 face="Times New Roman">Jeff Morfit</FONT></DIV></FONT>
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