J #604/611 Data

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I had the pleasure a few years ago of attending an environmental course with a member of the Norfolk Southern environmental department.  I struck up a conversation with him and during the course of that conversation he said that the 611 was really the 610.  Some time prior to or at the time of the decision to preserve a J-class, a high ranking Norfolk & Western executive ordered the number change.  If my acquaintance gave a name of the executive I cannot recall it.  Does anyone have more details about this or is this just an "urban legend" associated with 611?
Rick Huddle
N&WHS #3689
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  I've always heard that the 611 was preserved because it was the last J remaining and O. Winston Link made a personal appeal to Stuart Saunders to save it.  I'm sure the Link Museum can provide more definitive information.

  Sam Putney

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    I will provide my private email address so those who wish to reply to this message can reply to me privately, especially those who would like to submit information for my 611 book.
    Lois J. Ponton
    Friends of the 611
    ljp611 at ntelos.net<mailto:ljp611 at ntelos.net>

     

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    Subject: RE: J #604/611 Data
    Date: Tue, 29 Sep 2009 01:56:52 +0000
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    First, I have a interesting question:
    Why was 604 the first J to go to scrap?
    Second, in my completion of the book Midnight on the Pocahontas (about 611's 1956 wreck) I have to cover why the 611 was preserved. I would like this to be a private conversation, but I would like to speak with former N&W employees and the like who have information on why the 611 is still with us today. The subject can also be discussed on the board at the moderator's wish.
    Lois J. Ponton
    Friends of the 611

     
    > To: nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org
    > Subject: Re: J #604 builders plate
    > Date: Mon, 21 Sep 2009 22:33:39 -0400
    > From: nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org
    > 
    > Jimmy
    > K2 Would have had the regular Alco Brooks rectangle plate, K2a Would 
    > have a regular 9 1/4 Baldwin
    > round plate. Some that I have seen were chromed but not all of them may have 
    > worn off like most of the
    > Js did.
    > 
    > Larry Evans
    > Kenova,WV
    > 
    > 
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    > 
    > Any particular reason they moved them?
    > 
    > Mike Weeks
    > Greenville NC 

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