Re: T&P 610-Wait What?
| April 24, 2015 07:30AM |
Russo Loco Wrote:
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> Greg Scholl Wrote:
> ===================================
> > We cannot forget the 2-10-4 610 was used for
> > a portion of the Freedom Train, then was leased
>
> > to the Southern Railway for a couple of
> seasons.
> > ... My dad and a couple of friends chased
> it and
> > the photos were horrid, cause it was 95-100 de-
> > grees and nothing but smoggy looking pics.
> No-
> > thing worse than steam in mid-summer in most
> > of the US (Colorado would be the exception).
>
> Nonsense, Greg -
>
> There are lots of things worse than a steam engine
> in summer - especially a diseasel!
> In fact any diseasel is worse than any steam
> engine ANY time of year, IMnsHO.
>
---That goes without Saying!!!! But you punctuated it also!!!
>
> I was lucky - I got to ride on and chase #610 in
> February, 1976, in Texas. IIRC it rained one
> of the nights we were in Austin, but otherwise the
> weather was pretty good, with just enough cloud
> cover to soften the shadows. For pics see
> [ngdiscussion.net]
> 66001,
> [ngdiscussion.net]
> 51476 and
> [ngdiscussion.net]
> 13117.
Hold the phone---Whats with that green jacket? Secondly
I thought you were saying steam is better than diesels, yet there is
a stinkin diesel behind the 610. Hard to believe with as big of an engine that 2-10-4 is. Nice catching the 4449 with it though.
Southern had some issues with 610, which is why they got rid of it. Next up was ExCPR 2839, then Ex C&O 2716 which didn't even last a full two years, and after that 611 was running in 1982.
All engines were Southernized except for 611 which remained Norfolk and Western. It will be N&W again in May, but they added a goofy name to it now "Spirit of Roanoke". After seeing this copyright deal they are starting I am wondering about "The Spirit" thing!!!!
Look for a piece about this issue in Trains Newswire sometime Friday(Today). They contacted me for comments.
By the way Russ, the candlesticks and Eagle were later used on 2716. I only saw 2716 one time. Its very similar to the 765, and other 2-8-4's built by Lima around this time. Its back at the Kentucky Railway Museum on display, last operating for the Fort Wayne Historical Society on a handful of trips in 1996.
More info than you ever wanted to know on a NG board, eh!
Greg
=======================================================
> Greg Scholl Wrote:
> ===================================
> > We cannot forget the 2-10-4 610 was used for
> > a portion of the Freedom Train, then was leased
>
> > to the Southern Railway for a couple of
> seasons.
> > ... My dad and a couple of friends chased
> it and
> > the photos were horrid, cause it was 95-100 de-
> > grees and nothing but smoggy looking pics.
> No-
> > thing worse than steam in mid-summer in most
> > of the US (Colorado would be the exception).
>
> Nonsense, Greg -
>
> There are lots of things worse than a steam engine
> in summer - especially a diseasel!
> In fact any diseasel is worse than any steam
> engine ANY time of year, IMnsHO.
>
---That goes without Saying!!!! But you punctuated it also!!!
>
> I was lucky - I got to ride on and chase #610 in
> February, 1976, in Texas. IIRC it rained one
> of the nights we were in Austin, but otherwise the
> weather was pretty good, with just enough cloud
> cover to soften the shadows. For pics see
> [ngdiscussion.net]
> 66001,
> [ngdiscussion.net]
> 51476 and
> [ngdiscussion.net]
> 13117.
Hold the phone---Whats with that green jacket? Secondly
I thought you were saying steam is better than diesels, yet there is
a stinkin diesel behind the 610. Hard to believe with as big of an engine that 2-10-4 is. Nice catching the 4449 with it though.
Southern had some issues with 610, which is why they got rid of it. Next up was ExCPR 2839, then Ex C&O 2716 which didn't even last a full two years, and after that 611 was running in 1982.
All engines were Southernized except for 611 which remained Norfolk and Western. It will be N&W again in May, but they added a goofy name to it now "Spirit of Roanoke". After seeing this copyright deal they are starting I am wondering about "The Spirit" thing!!!!
Look for a piece about this issue in Trains Newswire sometime Friday(Today). They contacted me for comments.
By the way Russ, the candlesticks and Eagle were later used on 2716. I only saw 2716 one time. Its very similar to the 765, and other 2-8-4's built by Lima around this time. Its back at the Kentucky Railway Museum on display, last operating for the Fort Wayne Historical Society on a handful of trips in 1996.
More info than you ever wanted to know on a NG board, eh!
Greg
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