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I think there is nothing you can't do to mod the engine sometime to get 
the look you want at some point in time to look historically the way it 
was when it was originally running.
We are hearing whines and this and thats, but these things can be 
doable, if for a time to remove the "spirit of roanoke" etc for a while 
sounds fine to me or mod another look that makes it look closer to 
original operation scheme, why not, it looks good now, I'm not whining....

Strasburg took their 4-8-0 and comestically redid it to the original N&W 
heritage for a while  which was very cool of them.

-Lynn-


On 6/16/2015 1:38 AM, nw-mailing-list-request at nwhs.org wrote:
> Subject:
> Re: 611
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> Date:
> 6/15/2015 1:05 PM
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> I throw my support behind Ed's comments. From my view she looks >95% 
> as she would have in the 1950's. This situation reminds me of the 
> great naval ships and subs in museums around the country. Supporters 
> of the museums really wanted to have these vessels appear as they did 
> in 1943 during the height of America's involvement in WWII, but of 
> course it is impossible as many major changes happened during their 
> service after WWII (just look at all the changes to the IOWA class 
> ships such as addition of towers, radar masts, deletions of 5 inch 
> guns, etc). We have to use our imagination a bit to picture the way 
> they used to look during the war.
>
> The same could have been true for 611, yet she looks remarkably 
> similar to the way she did during her reign. I have to remind myself 
> that alterations along the way could have been far, far worse. And of 
> course, we are concerned about small changes that are easily fixed if 
> there is a push in the future to get her back to 100% authenticity 
> (which really should be the ultimate goal of the VMT I think, but 
> that's just me). I would suggest that those who are really committed 
> to such a cause join the VMT board and advocate from the inside rather 
> than walk away! In the interim, let me just say it is really special 
> to see her running again; there are so many things that could have 
> stopped it along the way, I really do think it is a miracle. And 
> thanks to all of the hard work by the thousands of supporters.
>
> Mike Weeks
> Seattle WA

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