NW COAL HOPPERS AT ROANOKE SCRAP YARD

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>Today we went railfanning around Roanoke.  I noticed the scrap yard that 

>has

>the old steam engines and coal cars from the 1930s is continuing to clean 

>up

>things.  The bad news(?) is the old coal cars are gone.  Does anyone know

>what happened to them.  Were they finally scrapped?  It would have been

>great if there'd been some way to preserve at least one of them.

>

>It looks like the area around some of the steam engines are being cleared 

>of

>weeds and brush.  Are they going to disappear next?

>

>Phil Miller

>Fredericksburg, VA




They're sitting right outside the VMT... they wered moved ~ a month ago.
Robb Fisher
RFDI