new, old 1218 video on YouTube

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How well I remember!  That was the day they almost aborted the run just east 
of Glen Lyn because the heavy rains had caused high water, fallen trees, and 
messed up signal systems. They considered backing the train to Walton. After 
sitting still for an hour or so, they decided to go on to Bluefield (as 
intended). This gave us time to clear a fallen tree from 460 with a borrowed 
chain saw so we could proceed west. We chased as far as Oakvale, where the 
WV state troopers had closed the road up East River. We had to go to 
Bluefield through Princeton. Coming back, Ron Flanary got a great scan shot 
at Ada. (published in Trains several years later)       Jim Nichols



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>>Subject: new, old 1218 video on YouTube

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>>Yesterday I posted to YouTube some video of 1218 from 1987. It was

>>shot on VHS and doesn't measure up to currently available consumer

>>video, but hey, it's video over 20 years old.

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>>I especially like the segment at about 2:30 where 1218 tries to

>>restart on wet rail on

>>Christiansburg Mountain. Great sound. And it looks to me like O.

>>Winston Link makes a cameo appearance.

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>>Enjoy.

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>>< http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=so7-Fu2psjc >

>>

>>Ross Hunter

>>Orange, VA

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