2156 and 2050 restoration

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How so? Have you seen the 2156 in recent times? yuck comes to mind. I 
mean who in their right mind PAINTS the RODS!

Nathan Simmons
trainman51 at gmail.com
http://www.t-51.org
KI4MSK

On 12/16/2013 16:41, NW Mailing List wrote:

> Mike

>    Sometimes I think its not so good to put everything in the same game.

> St Louis has been a good caretaker of the 2156 probably a lot better

> than VMT would have done. Of course it would be nice two see all three

> together. But if the ship sinks you lose it all

> Larry Evans

> Kenova, WV

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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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