Re: NNG, but honorary? Cass to Durbin WV now restored

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The coverage in the Trains Magazine "News Wire" reported:
The trip by No. 5 — at 117 years, the oldest locomotive in the United States still operating on the track for which it was built — was to retrieve former Meadow River Lumber Company three-truck Heisler No. 6. That locomotive powered the Durbin & Greenbrier Valley’s Durbin Rocket for seven years. The Heisler is out of service with a badly eroded smokebox floor and will require about six months in the shop to return to steam, according to Durbin & Greenbrier Valley president and CEO John Smith.

When repaired, No. 6 may be a candidate to power the recently announced Greenbrier Express trains set to begin operation between Cass and Durbin later this year [see “Durbin & Greenbrier Valley announces plans …,” Trains News Wire, Jan. 31, 2022], given a top speed nearly twice that of the available Shay locomotives or of Climax No. 9, the former No. 6 of the Middle Fork Railroad (Ellamore, W.Va.). Eventual plans call for the train to be powered by former Buffalo Creek & Gauley 2-8-0 No. 4, awaiting restoration to operating condition. For information on to to donate to that restoration effort, please visit this website.