St. Louis Museum of Transportation and Virginia Museum of Transportation to trade historic locomotives

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Did they forget about the Y at the Illinois Railway Museum?
Kurt Kramke 


On 05/29/14, NW Mailing List wrote:


Wow! This is very exciting. I will have to pay visit to Roanoke again to see the big 3 together again.


Mike Weeks
Seattle, WA





On Wed, May 28, 2014 at 8:13 PM, NW Mailing List <nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org> wrote:







Date: Wed, 28 May 2014 16:44:40 
-0400

From: Norfolk Southern News <nsinfo at nscorp.com>

Subject: [NSInfo] St. Louis Museum of Transportation and Virginia Museum 
of

Transportation to trade historic locomotives


May 28, 2014




St. Louis Museum of Transportation and Virginia Museum of 
Transportation to trade historic locomotives



NORFOLK, VA. – The 
Museum of 
Transportation, St. Louis, and the 
Virginia Museum of 
Transportation are in discussions to bring Norfolk and Western Y6a 
steam engine #2156, currently in the St. Louis museum, back to its place 
of origin at Roanoke, Va., on a five-year loan for display at the 
Virginia museum, in a transaction facilitated by Norfolk Southern.



In exchange, the Virginia museum will send to St. Louis a Southern 
Railway diesel General Motors EMD FTB unit to complement the St. Louis 
museum’s FTA demonstration unit.



“This will reunite the last surviving Y-class locomotive, one of the 
hardest pulling steam locomotives ever built, with the J-611 and the 
A-1218 in Roanoke, where all three were designed and built by Norfolk and 
Western,” said Molly Butterworth, cultural site manager for the St. Louis 
Museum of Transportation. ”In return, our historic FTA, built in 1939 to 
demonstrate to the rail industry the efficiency of diesel power, will be 
reunited with its complimentary B unit.”



“We are thrilled to welcome the Y6a home again,” said Bev Fitzpatrick, 
executive director of the Virginia Museum of Transportation. “We’re 
grateful to the St. Louis Museum of Transportation for this opportunity 
to reunite three powerful sisters of steam in their home town.”



The Museum of Transportation, a St. Louis County Park in west St. Louis 
County, Mo., houses what has been recognized as one of the largest and 
best collections of transportation vehicles in the world. With over 70 
locomotives, half of them "one-of-a-kind" or "sole 
survivors" of their type, the Museum has one of the most complete 
collections of American railroad motive power, and its collections of 
automobiles, buses, streetcars, aircraft, horse-drawn vehicles, and 
riverboat materials are constantly expanding to reflect the ever-changing 
nature of transportation.



The Virginia Museum of Transportation, Virginia’s official transportation 
museum, is home to two of the most powerful steam locomotives in 
existence today: the N&W Class A 1218 and the N&W Class J 611. 
The Museum attracts visitors of all ages from across the U.S. and around 
the world. Through exhibits, artifacts, and an outstanding collection of 
rail equipment, cars, trucks, airplanes, and more, the Museum tells the 
story of Virginia’s rich transportation history.




Norfolk Southern Corporation (NYSE: NSC) is one of the nation’s 
premier transportation companies. Its Norfolk Southern Railway Company 
subsidiary operates approximately 20,000 

route miles in 22 states and the District of Columbia, serves every 
major container port in the eastern United States, and provides efficient 
connections to other rail carriers. Norfolk Southern operates the most 
extensive intermodal network in the East and is a major transporter of 
coal, automotive, and industrial products.




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Norfolk Southern contacts:



(Media) Robin Chapman, 
757-629-2710 (Robin.Chapman at nscorp.com)

(Investors) Katie Cook, 
757-629-2861 
(
InvestorRelations at nscorp.com)




















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