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

Fri May 30 08:44:41 EDT 2014

What they list as simple traffic effort is compound, and vice versa.

Bud Jeffries
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  Regarding N&W Y3a 2050 at the Illinois Railway Museum, does anyone see anything wrong with the following statistic for the 2050 from that museum's website:

        Tractive Effort: 114154lbs S / 136985lbs C 

  Gordon Hamilton

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  > Did they forget about the Y at the Illinois Railway Museum?
  > Kurt Kramke 
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  > On 05/29/14, NW Mailing List wrote:
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  > Wow! This is very exciting. I will have to pay visit to Roanoke again to see the big 3 together again.
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  > Mike Weeks
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  > On Wed, May 28, 2014 at 8:13 PM, NW Mailing List <nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org> wrote:
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  > Date: Wed, 28 May 2014 16:44:40 
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  > From: Norfolk Southern News <nsinfo at nscorp.com>
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  > Subject: [NSInfo] St. Louis Museum of Transportation and Virginia Museum 
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  > Transportation to trade historic locomotives
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  > May 28, 2014
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  > St. Louis Museum of Transportation and Virginia Museum of 
  > Transportation to trade historic locomotives
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  > 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.
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  > 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.
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  > “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.”
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  > “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.”
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  > 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.
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  > 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.
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  > Norfolk Southern Corporation (NYSE: NSC) is one of the nation’s 
  > premier transportation companies. Its Norfolk Southern Railway Company 
  > subsidiary operates approximately 20,000 
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  > 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:
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  > (Media) Robin Chapman, 
  > 757-629-2710 (Robin.Chapman at nscorp.com)
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  > (Investors) Katie Cook, 
  > 757-629-2861 
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  > InvestorRelations at nscorp.com)
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