C&O 614 to VMT

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Highly modified what??  

Larry Evans
Kenova,WV
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  Subject: Re: C&O 614 to VMT


  Please let me add my 2 cents to shed additional light on the "most modern steam locomotive" issue.

  1)  As built in the 1950's the last N&W J's benefitted from additional years of engineering advancement, when compared with the 1948 C&O 614.

  2)  However, as part of the ACE program the C&O 614 was highly modified in the early 1980's, again benefitting from several more decades of engineering advancement.

  Hope this helps.

  Patrick Whalen
  Berlin, MD

   
  On Wed, Dec 8, 2010 at 9:36 PM, NW Mailing List <nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org> wrote:

    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
       

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      Subject: Re: C&O 614 to VMT

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

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      "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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