C&O 614

[bushpounder]

Look what rolled through the back gate last week! She'll be with us for a few months before moving on.



Don

[beana51]

WOW!....The 4-8-4 This living , Fire Breathing Monster at rest....Whats happens to this LOCOMOTIVE now?..Hope its not the Scrap Yard??....to be converted to some Car,or Washing machine...HOPE NOT!!..

.Justice: owner of the famed Greenbrier Resort. The resort owner is reportedly interested in running steam-powered excursion trains from Greenbrier to Washington, DC, and westward as well. To be known as the Greenbrier Express,...

.Thanx Much!..Looking at this,and along with the Flicks ,I found ,makes thisC@O,614 is a real mover for people,,in more ways than one...Most Impressive..Thanx for the memory Don..Vin



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Jan 29, 2011 11:12:06 GMT -5 beana51 said:

WOW!....The 4-8-4 This living , Fire Breathing Monster at rest

Love it! Thanks for sharing!

[bushpounder]

Well .... our 4-8-4 will kick the 614's butt!! (N&W J 611)




Don

[beana51]

One HOWLING Steam breathing "MOTHER OF ALL BEASTS!...!The 611 is!......Don ya give Me chills up and down my spine..We took so much for granted then.....As a boy,and next to Air planes,...the DC-3 which was HOT then ,..STEAM LOCOMOTIVES were fond memories.of daily life! NOW GONE, ,..Those wailing sounds in the middle of Winter nights,from afar ..WOW!..are DIM MEMORIES now!!...,...The Huffing puffing,Clanking,Of The 0-4-0 Switchers in the PORT JERVIS train yards.day and night,all weather.That train Turntable..gone!.The Transfer Stations,Gone,The Coal for fuel,Gone those Water Towers,Gone,and all those Old Guys at intersections with oil lamps ..Gone!...... ....Then The Interstates in the 50s came,,and then gone the rails...

To the "Mountains by Rail" by Manville B. Wakefield 1989 brings some of this back in NY! in his great book!....also....Stephen Ambrose's book," Nothing Like It In The World" The Men Who Built the Transcontinental Railroad 1863-1869, both for rail lovers a must read

.Today they say ,AMTRACK is losing BILLIONS of dollars,...One can only guess their future...Thanx..Vin


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[bushpounder]

In some areas, rail travel is coming back. Last year, they started to run trains to Lynchburg. So far, the riding numbers are far beyond what they ever expected. We are now pushing to have the train come just a little further west to Roanoke. I know it too will exceed the numbers. People here want rail. This is a rail town. The two engines above were designed and built less than a half a mile from where they are sitting (right outside my office!). We ARE rail here and would love to ride to D.C. by rail. Time will tell. We have some great books available on our website (www.vmt.org) too from our brand new online store. I got many gray hairs over that episode! These engines are true beauties and were all built in the days of drawings and sliderules. They could run around the clock and could hit speeds of 120 mph. Amazing that something that weighs that much could ever get moving that fast! The 611 and tender are just under a million pounds. Runner-up to my mother-in-law!! Glad you like them too. They were and still very much are, an important part of our country's history.

Don

[bhk]

Don,
I envy you the fact that you can wander out the back and be surrounded by such machinery.
Wonderful stuff, mate.

Bruce

[Dan]

WoW!!!

Amazing - it looks grand!!!

Bruce is right, you are lucky, Don - to be able to just walk right out and take a coffee break next to these beautiful pieces of history!!

Regarding train travel coming back - I'm all for it!! We need the slow trains and the fast 300 mph trains (China just tested one and the Japanese ran one at 361 mph in 2003)! We needed them yesterday - hopefully they'll be here tomorrow - then we can junk half the automobiles and a lot of old smelly aeroplanes. A nice transportation mix/choice is what's needed and train travel will fill a gap that's been missing in this country for a long time in getting from one place to another. Plus, they say they have food - onboard no-less (the thought of such a thing :

news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20101203/ap_on_hi_te/as_china_high_speed_rail

Thanks for the video's Vin - enjoyed viewing!

Dan

…it’s great being a kid again – without the glue! ;D