C&O 614 to VMT

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Rick

  Would not take anymore money to have 614 running again than
it would to have 611 running again. Basically the same boiler work
Just a few hundred thousand.  Actually it would be small change compared
 to what they have all ready spent on three C-36s and the 15 passenger cars 
.
 I don't think this project is lacking capital dollars. Ross has said no 
steam
at this time and is concentrating on getting the train ready.
  As far as pipedreams are concerned  Ross has had some great ones over the
years and I have enjoy ever one of them.  Bob Claytor had a few dreams also
and I enjoyed them too. So it don't hurt to dream. And while your at it 
dream
big.

Larry Evans
Kenova, WV


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Subject: Re: C&O 614 to VMT



>  Last summer, a weekend of special events on the South Branch Valley was 

> advertised as featuring WM Scenic RR's 2-8-0.  That would have required 

> CSX to tow the 2-8-0 from Cumberland to Green Spring, about 13 miles. 

> That was wishful thinking on someone's part, because it never happened. 

> As for 614 pulling the proposed Greenbrier Express, that is an even 

> greater pipedream. Besides getting CSX cooperation, the locomotive hasn't 

> operated in years. Real $$$ to restore it to operation.

>

> --Rick Morrison

>

>

> Steven

>>   Where do you get this CSX routing  NS move all the

>> way as I see it ?  Commonwealth pilots on all there locomotives.

>>

>> Larry Evans

>> Kenova. W.Va

>>

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>> Subject: Re: C&O 614 to VMT

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>>

>>> It is highly doubtful as the route is mostly over CSX's trackage and

>>> CSX has an adamant no-steam policy, unlike NS which has recently

>>> lightened up by allowing movements of SP 4449 over the rails during

>>> Trainfestival 2009 and with Nickle Plate 765 in recent years,

>>> culminating with the announcement of the return of steam to NS in 2011

>>> with the program co-sponsored by NS and the Tennessee Valley Railroad

>>> Museum in Chattanooga. It will be interesting to see where the VMT

>>> places the 614 in relation to the 611 and 1218. One observation I've

>>> noticed is the C&O 614's solid cast pilot looks virtually identical to

>>> those on 611 and 1218, I am curious if they were built by the same

>>> company? Or were those on the A and J both fabricated in the Roanoke

>>> Shops?

>>>

>>> Steven Ashley

>>>

>>> On 12/2/10, NW Mailing List <nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org> wrote:

>>>> Will it pull the luxury train?

>>>>

>>>>

>>>>

>>>> Christopher J. Bunsey

>>>>

>>

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