I was last up there over Thanksgiving, so please excuse my late asking... Are the three old rusted hoppers sitting out in the railyard from the scrap yard? And...
Doesn't sound like a done deal quite yet...the following is taken from http://mountainstaterails.net/index.php?showtopic=1096 and was posted on Feb 2nd of this...
Hello Colleague Railfans - this message comes from Boston, Lincolnshire, England. Should I deduce from recent postings that the locomotives, etc., are still at...
Best I know the locomotives are still at the scrapyard but the hoppers have been moved to a track by the VMT I THINK. Bob Welsh Hillsville, VA ... From:...
I was in Roanoke about two weeks ago and the engines were still in the scrap yard then. However, they do appear to have all of the crap cleared from around...
Fella's 3 of the 4 Hoppers are now at the VMofT (Parked on the lead that the N&W 611 is on) the 4th hopper went to the fellow who moved them as payment, he is...
Hello, You are receiving this email because you are watching the topic, "Possible Dates for the tools move" at The Western Virginia Railroad Preservaton...
I was up that way yesterday and you can see 2 of the engines very good from the road now and if you walk down the hill from the bridge you can get some nice...
Greetings, If they're anything like the ex-scrapyard tenders we've had to contend with in the U.K. the tanks themselves will probably be useful only as ...
Just a Reminder, its been pushed to October 27th, 2007. look here for updates vmtmusings.blogspot.com and http://www.vatrainpull.com/ Thanks, Connor VMT...
Alright, heres how it works, im a Volunteer at the VMT, and 1218 will and cant be fired again, due to some rather important parts missing(Mostly all of them),...
Connor, What sorts of parts are missing on the 1218? When I was there for the celebration when it was brought into the museum, it sounded like most everything...
Heh, the 1218 is missing every internal peice, from the flum to the firebox. All we have are the firebox grates, and some scrap parts stored in her flum...
Due to a new building going to be built where the scrap yard and the grain mill are now, the Scarp Yard has closed their doors, and was emptied the other day,...
Awe, what a dang shame - the richest country on the planet can't afford a few shillings to secure some priceless items of heritage for posterity .... "C.D."...
Yea... we need to take more to the british way of thinking, that the past needs to be saved, so we can show the future. We are just to centered on pressing...
WOW! Bummer on that crane being junked! I note you mentioned three steamers and not four. What happened to the other one? Also did the hopper cars and tenders...
Only is one crane, and pardon, there is four steamers, tenders i think got scrapped, and the happers where moved to our property earlier this year Connor...
Aren't those internal parts the stuff that typically all gets replaced during a thorough rebuild? Not that it matters but so much...millions are still...
Yea throught a rebuild yes, btu the thing is, its getting harder and harder to do these things due to the knowledge and the forms we need are disappearing, i...
Heh, i know that story, steam engine went into the unstable tunnel, and collopsed killing most of the train crew, while some escaped out the other tunnel,...
I helped reassemble 1218 for display back in 2002 & 2003. When the NS Steam Program was shut down in 1994, 1218 was about halfway through a major overhaul....
When you consider the Pennsy K-4 has already had more than $2 million dollars spent on it and is still nearly as far away from running dollar wise as the 1218...
Actually I think I have seen some interior shots as it is now. Looked a lot better with a fire in there. John Bohon ... locomtive, ... bargain. I ... will. ...
I have been a lurker on this list (actually, lower than a lurker, since I often did not even read the mail). I just found an old steam railroad crane at...
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