NW COAL HOPPERS AT ROANOKE SCRAP YARD

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Thu Nov 23 20:01:26 EST 2006



>Today we went railfanning around Roanoke. I noticed the scrap yard that

>has

>the old steam engines and coal cars from the 1930s is continuing to clean

>up

>things. The bad news(?) is the old coal cars are gone. Does anyone know

>what happened to them. Were they finally scrapped? It would have been

>great if there'd been some way to preserve at least one of them.

>

>It looks like the area around some of the steam engines are being cleared

>of

>weeds and brush. Are they going to disappear next?

>

>Phil Miller

>Fredericksburg, VA




They're sitting right outside the VMT... they wered moved ~ a month ago.
Robb Fisher
RFDI




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