Fw: Pacific 578 recordings & The N&WHS Preservation Mission

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Hopefully this recording project will become available through the N&WHS Commissary sooner than later. I read an interesting comment that was said why the couple that made these recordings didn’t make them commercially available years ago. The couple did not want to compete with the O. Winston Link N&W recordings from that time period! I would like those of you that are holding onto photos, recordings or even newspaper articles on historic railroads to make them available for sale and/or distribution while those few folks that grew up during the Age of Steam are still alive to enjoy them. I think you will find that this new information will generate interest by younger people. You will still be around to answer questions for them and hopefully make them want to pass on their interest in trains and why they are so important in the building of America! Don’t let your historical railroad items end up in a landfill!
You will be so happy that you did save them! Spread the word about the N&WHS and it’s important mission of railroad preservation for future generations!
All aboard!
Norris

Norris Deyerle
Blue Ridge Chapter, National Railway Historical Society Chairman of Virginia's Rail Heritage Region Partners
Info: www.blueridgenrhs.org
744 Chinook Place
Lynchburg, Virginia 24502-4908
Cell: 434-851-0151
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Subject: Re: Pacific 578 recordings

Jim,

I also would be interested in this cd.

Steven Ashley

On Sunday, February 2, 2020, NW Mailing List <nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org<mailto:nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org>> wrote:
As I mentioned before, I have Bill Bauer’s 1/4 inch tape recordings and recently released his chase of Y6 2136 on a mine run in 1958. Bill also rode trains 5 & 6 and recorded much of those runs from the baggage car at the head of the train. Pacific 578’s Hancock whistle is very prominent in those recordings and Bill captured some great sound as the train got up to speed out of Bluefield, Va before working it’s way toward Norton over grades, trestles, and through tunnels. He kept the recorder going at some of the station stops where you hear talk from the crew and ground personnel and related activity. If there is sufficient interest, I’ll produce a CD from those trips.

-Jim Herron
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