2156 and 2050 restoration

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As a Virginia transplant to Illinois and N&W Historical Society member, I want to let you know I would hate for the Illinois Railway Museum to lose the 2050 and for the National Transportation Museum in St Louis to lose the 2156.  There are N&W fans worldwide and we like having a small piece of its history in easy driving distance.  That said, I do understand the desire to bring the girls home to Roanoke.  And seeing them under steam would be glorious...since I have missed everything since then, steam wise.
Something neat happened at IRM--I was videotaping a kid about 5 years old running around being a nuisance...(to everyone but me)...he climbed on the nose of 2050 and was yanking the bell cord...I muttered to myself, That's N&W brass, boy, and you just go to town and let me record.  His parents have no idea that they were the ones being a nuisance...they took him off the locomotive!
Mike Shockley
Peoria, IL
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