C&O 614 to VMT

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Was 614 the last steam *passenger* locomotive built in the U.S.?
Just asking.

Frank Bongiovanni

On Wed, Dec 8, 2010 at 1:57 PM, NW Mailing List <nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org>wrote:


> Jimmy, thanks for the reply. I stand corrected. It's funny that you ended

> your message with the "self destruct" passage from "Mission Impossible",

> as I got into broadcasting after being furloughed from Norfolk Southern. I

> do a lot of radio/tv commercials, as well as voiceover work for The History

> Channel, etc. So getting to the point, My last voice work was to read a fake

> "Mission Impossible" opening for the City of Virginia Beach's cable channel.

> John Katz, Virginia Beach

>

> ------------------------------

> To: nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org

> Subject: Re: C&O 614 to VMT

> Date: Tue, 7 Dec 2010 18:20:25 -0500

>

> From: nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org

>

>   *"If somebody read another article that added the qualifier "the most

> modern commercially built steam locomotive", then produce that article, or

> were you just ticked because I insulted the lame stream media."*

> **

> Mr. Phelps,

>     Yes, there was an article that specifically said that the 614 was the

> "last commercially built locomotive in America". When I first read the

> blurb, I thought the same way you did. Then after reading it over the

> "commercially" qualifier finally registered in my mind, so I let it go at

> that.

>     Now, whether or not it was the very "last commercially built

> locomotive", I have no idea. Where said article is, I also have no idea. I

> came across it via a link to some on-line forum to which I don't subscribe.

>

> "This message will self destruct in five seconds"

>

> Jimmy Lisle

>

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