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| Author: | Bob Yarger [ Tue Mar 25, 2003 10:46 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Roanoke Shops |
Old diesels parked by Roanoke shops. I'm guessing these are stored for the Virginia Museum of Transportation? http://abpr.railfan.net/abprphoto.cgi?september02/09-02-02/NSRoanokeShopsAnOverallJuly02a.jpg ryarger@rypn.org |
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| Author: | Chris [ Tue Mar 25, 2003 11:04 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Roanoke Shops |
> Old diesels parked by Roanoke shops. I'm > guessing these are stored for the Virginia > Museum of Transportation? Yup, that would be them. The museum just finished building a shed to cover most of the equipment, and everything in that image should be under cover now, except for the RF&P box, which was at one point used for tool/part storage. I was doing some volunteer work there back in the mid 90's, and the weather has taken its toll already :-( The top of the RS-3 was prepped and painted in 98, and we did the Nickel Plate Geep as well. We had just finished prepping 1776 for paint when I left the museum, which I haven't been back to since probably 99, for various reasons including lack of museum support for restoration in general and in part because I had just graduated from VT and needed to find a job other than volunteer work on old trains every weekend :-) BTW: The N&W 1218 will be "unveiled" in at VMT on June 14th. (www.vmt.org) -C |
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