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   "Glen Labah"  wrote in message   
   news:gl4317-54A049.21423731052014@mx05.eternal-september.org...   
   > In article ,   
   > "conklin"  wrote:   
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   >> NC RR museum has the 611 this weekend on display.  There is an interview   
   >> with an engineer who actually drove the beast in the past.  Of course,   
   >> the   
   >> 611 is being restored, as I'm sure you know.   
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   > Thanks.   
   >   
   > I'm not sure it is necessarily the greatest assembly of locomotives put   
   > together like this, but certainly one of the bigger assemblies put   
   > together in recent years.   
   >   
   > The California State Railroad Museum hosted a few events in the 1980s   
   > that drew locomotives from around the country, and the Vancouver BC   
   > World's Fair drew a pile of locomotives as well.   
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   I attended the Streamliners at Spencer show.  You could not get within 300   
   feet of N&W 611.  I liked viewing Southern 6900, which hauled the Southern   
   Crescent, a train I rode on many times from Monroe to DC and NYC.  I also   
   photographed some of the engines when they were doing crew changes in   
   Monroe, but the prints really did not come out well, since nightime   
   photographs even with 3,000 speed Polaroid film was marginal due to the   
   small lens in the cameras..  But I sure do remember those E8s.   
      
   I talked with the crew of Union Pacific 949.  By 4 PM they were getting the   
   engine ready to be hauled out with a stop in Asheville.  N&S does not permit   
   riders in the engine, so one of those in charge trailed it and stayed with   
   it in the yards.   
      
   The last time I was at Spencer the passenger cars were being hauled the   
   Shay, now sidelined probably forever, in the roundhouse.  There was a   
   complete consist of the Piedmont open for inspection, as well as the Amtrak   
   adverting train which showed a fake dining car experience using real ceramic   
   plates, cups and saucers.  You could only with for that......   
      
   The E3 ACL 501 had 6 million miles credited to it, farther than any other E   
   engine has gone.   
      
      
      
      
      
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