What happened to Va&T RR engine # 7?

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At 03:34 PM 11/3/05, you wrote:

>There is an image in the VT archives of Va & T RR engine #7

>which is dated Nov 1, 1952.  The image can be found at

>http://spec.lib.vt.edu/imagebase/norfolksouthern/full/ns1385.jpeg

>The image was taken in what is obviously Roanoke, near the passenger

>station, with the N&W headquarters building in the background.


  It looks like it was actually N&W 7, one of the leftover G1 2-8-0s, 
dressed up in old-style garb for the V&T centennial.

David Thompson