Gonna get all three trains in the picture!
Feb 20, 2019 17:00:11 #
Feb 21, 2019 14:34:07 #
Stephan G wrote:
Shot this up in Roanoke, VA,
One of my favorite photos was taken from the cab of 611 of 1218's cab area.
https://static.uglyhedgehog.com/upload/2018/5/22/t1-684976-dscn0846.jpg
Feb 21, 2019 14:46:46 #
Rich1939 wrote:
One of my favorite photos was taken from the cab of 611 of 1218's cab area.
Whenever I see 611, I always kick myself for not having camera in hand when it roared from Atlanta going northeast. I was sitting under a bridge when it came through, I could have had a shot looking into the cab with the fire doors wide open and making the people inside the cab glow. Never had a repeat of conditions to make that kind of capture. But I do have the image in my mind.
I can see the 611 racing the 1218.
Thanks for the comment.
Feb 21, 2019 20:38:04 #
Feb 22, 2019 07:09:51 #
Feb 22, 2019 19:02:26 #
Feb 22, 2019 20:02:38 #
BeachReck wrote:
Railroad Museum of Virginia (Roanoke)?
Yes, indeed. We have been stopping in every so often on our trip up to NJ and back home South. We use I-81 as the main route.
Feb 22, 2019 23:25:48 #
BeachReck
Loc: Chesapeake Bay
Stephan G wrote:
Yes, indeed. We have been stopping in every so often on our trip up to NJ and back home South. We use I-81 as the main route.
If possible, stay overnight in the Hotel Roanoke. Lot’s of RR history. N&W owned the hotel and their offices were directly across the street in the two buildings connected by a pedestrian enclosed walkway on around the 3rd-4th floor. Now the hotel and the former offices belong to Virginia Tech- at least the last I heard. The hotel is now in the Hilton chain and has been completely revamped. The N&W main tracks separate Hotel Roanoke from downtown and the RR museum, but there is a really nice pedestrian enclosed walkway over the tracks from the hotel.
Yes, I’m a retired former Southern Railway officer and spent a lot of time in Roanoke when we merged in 1982. Now in Norfolk and retired from NS here.
Feb 23, 2019 08:53:51 #
BeachReck wrote:
If possible, stay overnight in the Hotel Roanoke. ... (show quote)
Sir, I just had to "stop in" and say hello. Back in the 60's and 70's I favored a couple of lines. Two of which were the Southern and the N&W. I thought the merger was (from a fan standpoint at least) was great.
Feb 24, 2019 10:33:27 #
Apr 17, 2019 10:23:49 #
BeachReck wrote:
If possible, stay overnight in the Hotel Roanoke. ... (show quote)
I grew up in Martinsville and the 611 came through there frequently. It has to be the most beautiful steam locomotive ever built. I went to tech and rode a N & W train from Blacksburg to one of our football games as a cadet in 1959. I never will forget that trip. I don't think 611 was the loco however.
Apr 17, 2019 10:24:02 #
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