NS runs into trouble moving locomotives from Roanoke scrapyard

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I'm afraid Mr. Chapman has been misinformed about these engines setting directly on the ground. Here's a photo of 1118 directly from the lost engines website. It is setting on rails unless something has changed since this photo. 
   
  http://lostengines.railfan.net/images/S_1118_rg_005.jpg 
   
  Here's the 1134, again directly from the lost engines site. I believe I can see a rail between the first and second drive wheels.
   
  http://lostengines.railfan.net/images/S_1134_jh_001.jpg
   
  And, here's the 917 showing the pilot wheels, and the rails are again visible.
   
   http://lostengines.railfan.net/images/S_917_rj_001.jpg
   
  Perhaps someone in the inner circles could inform the powers that be that these engines are indeed still on rails. I don't know if that will help with the move or not, but it sure can't hurt.
   
  You never know. If a temporary track was put in place and connected to the track these things are setting on, they may be able to roll, or slide them out to a point where it would be easier to get to them. You never know, they may actually roll. If they did, then maybe they could be craned onto the main track and towed to VMT. But, if they won't roll, they'll have to move on flats. 
  Ben Blevins


NW Mailing List <nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org> wrote:  >From the TRAINS website

January 18, 2008

ROANOKE, Va. - Norfolk Southern Railway officials can't figure out how they'd move the surviving pieces of four steam engines and two diesels at a Roanoke scrapyard, the Roanoke Times reported. Preservationists would like to see the locomotives go to the Virginia Museum of Transportation. 

"We have looked at the feasibility of moving those old locomotives out of there, and I guess the short of it is, we really have not come up with a practical way to do that," said NS spokesman Robin Chapman.

He said the barriers to moving the equipment include the fact that the locomotives are sitting on the ground, not on rails, and that the railroad doesn't know how much they weigh. Once they're loaded on flatcars, it would be an easy trip across town to the museum.

The engines at Virginia Scrap Iron & Metal include Norfolk & Western 4-8-0s 1118, 1134, and 1151, and 2-8-0 917, as well as two Chesapeake Western Baldwin diesels. The steam engines have sat there since 1950, and have badly rusted and been picked over. 


          jerry 
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