PCM Y6b question

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Hi Rev. Hung

Going through my e-mails I saw your entry. Always looking forward to
contacting people for pen pals (now e-mail) in the UK. I now have a list of
about 6 people I e-mail on a regular basis to keep in touch with modelers
in Europe. I guess I'm really trying to do two things, get information on
other B&Bs that have model railroads as part of their theme; and also meet
new people in the UK that have an interest in model railroads - especially
O-Gauge and G-Gauge. I would like to get back over and see places like
Crewe, England since Crewe, Virginia is only a few miles from our farm and
I volunteer at the Railroad Museum there - I maintain a large O-Gauge
layout for the visitors.  If you will send me your normal e-mail address
I'll send some photos - since the forum normally deletes attachments.

In our basement I'm beginning to build a good size layout (16' x 44')  that
I want to model on the N&W and Virginian. Since I'm just getting into the
N&W (because of family was always a B&) fan) I'm sort of starting out at
your level.  I'm farilt close to Roanoke, Virginia and the N&W Historical
Society's Library so I hope to make use of that. What is you modeling
interest? .

I'm currently retired - except for our small 2 room B&B effort which will
be more like you find in the UK - simple farm life and not real expensive.
I've been collecting trains for about 30 years and now have a fair
collection of O-gauge. I'm just really getting into the G-gauge trains. I
got hooked on the O-gauge in England and Scotland while visiting some of
the outdoor layouts - some with live steam. We're located about 40 miles
west of Richmond, Virginia. Jane, my wife of 41 years, is a hospice nurse
for our local counties - and she is really great about my train addiction!

If your interested, give me some more info on your Church and interests.
Our oldest son (David) went through the Virginia Military Insitute (VMI)
and then decided to becaome a Baptist Minister. He now had a small country
churh in North Caroliina - along with his trains! ­ as I said above, always
looking to make new friends in the UK. If you travel to the US - possibly
for the TCA York Train Meet - plan on visiting us as our guests for a
couple days to talk trains on both sides of the pond! I'm always looking
for new ideas and other ways of doing trains.

Ron and Jane Timma

Rft01 at earthlink.net


 > [Original Message]
 > From: <nw-modeling-list at nwhs.org>
 > To: <nw-modeling-list at nwhs.org>
 > Date: 5/31/06 8:50:41 PM
 > Subject: PCM Y6b question
 >
 > Dear All,
 >
 > As this is my first mailing to this list, I feel I should introduce
 > myself.
 >
 > I am 60 years old, and am a minister in the Church of England (your US
 > equivalent is "Episcopalian"). I am British, but was born in China of
 > Chinese parents, who came to the UK in 1948, and couldn't return
 > because of the communist takeover of China.
 >
 > I have long been interested in railways (as we call them over here). I
 > have developed a special interest in American railroads in the last
 > few years, and especially the Northern Pacific and the Norfolk and
 > Western (but only mainly for the period up to 1959). My knowledge
 > about the N&W is derived from a few books and DVDs. Among the latter
 > are the "Pocahontas Glory" series and "Hooters on Blue Ridge", which
 > is one of the best DVDs I have seen on any rail subject. The sequences
 > of N&W steam locos and trains include some of the most memorable
 > sights and sounds I have seen and heard on DVD - how thrilling it must
 > have been to have witnessed this first-hand, as some of you did!
 >
 > Ed King's comments on Y6s prompts a question. Here in the UK, in the
 > steam days, each loco had a "shed" allocation, which could be seen as
 > that loco's "home". For instance, among the famous A4 Pacifics of the
 > old LNER, during most of the 1950s, 60022 'Mallard' was allocated to
 > King's Cross (London), while 60027 'Merlin' was allocated to Haymarket
 > (Edinburgh), if I remember correctly. They would tend to be only seen
 > on duties associated with those sheds. (As one of these duties was on
 > the non-stop London-Edinburgh and vv. "Elizabethan", which duty was
 > shared between the two sheds, they both could regularly be seen at
 > either city).
 >
 > Does the same sort of thing apply to the N&W, and indeed to American
 > railroads in general? Could it be said that 2120-2161/2163-2180 were
 > allocated to Roanoke, and 2162/2181-2200 were allocated to Bluefield,
 > and would this mean that the Roanoke group had different duties from
 > the Bluefield locos?
 >
 > Up until now, my interest in railroads had been largely concentrated
 > on passenger trains and locos. "Hooters on Blue Ridge", among others,
 > has made me into a particular "fan" of the Y 2-8-8-2 classes of the
 > N&W. There are other questions about them (and other N&W steam locos,
 > and about N&W trains) which I have, which I hope to mail in the
 > future. I apologize if they seem elementary to American railfans, but
 > over here on the other side of the Atlantic it isn't always as easy to
 > get information.
 >
 > Best wishes to you all,
 >
 > Frank Hung
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