J #604/611 Data

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Please save these type of posts for April 1st... Thanks.
 
(The real 611 was buried in the Smith Mountain Lake dam with 1,924 tuscan  
red color chip (color drift) cards...) Also unknown to many historians is 
that  the water part of the tender was filled with brass heart locks with 
keys,  lanterns and globes and welded shut just before the concrete was poured.
 
 
In a message dated 10/18/2009 9:11:16 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,  
nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org writes:

 
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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To: _nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org_ (mailto:nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org) 
Subject:  RE: J #604/611 Data
Date: Tue, 29 Sep 2009 01:56:52 +0000
From: _nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org_ (mailto:nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org) 

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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> Sent: Monday,  September 21, 2009 8:10 PM

> Subject: RE: J #604 builders  plate

> 

> 

> Any particular reason they moved  them?

> 

> Mike Weeks

> Greenville NC 

 
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