Bill Purdie and the 611

J3a-614 · **Posted:** Sat Oct 09, 2010 8:43 am

Video clip from YouTube; hard to believe this is history now:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0j8ERAPo ... u_in_order

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9CtktJ-G ... u_in_order

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y0ZdW_KT ... u_in_order

I thought this was just yesterday. . .

gmray · **Joined:** Sun Aug 22, 2004 9:34 am **Posts:** 382

I have some 8mm movies that I took of 611's break-in run somewhere. I can still hear my brother yelling, "65, 65, they're doing 65". Of course, no one on the locomotive would admit that. Track speed was 50 mph.

Those were the days...

Stephen S. Syfrett · **Posted:** Sun Oct 10, 2010 11:48 pm

In one segment of the videos there is a shot on the engineer's side from the Southern bay window caboose that went with 611. Any record or possibility of finding out which caboose that was?