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Posted by BillyDee53 on Tuesday, July 8, 2008 6:43 PM

N&W 917 is on it's way to Ohio, to be plced on display at a restaurant near Columbus.  The owner has several cars outside the restaurant.

Work is still going on to save the rest of the locos.

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One N&W Locomotive saved
Posted by Beach Bill on Tuesday, July 8, 2008 10:23 AM

Today's Roanoke Times contains an article about the movement and planned restoration of one of the derelict N&W steam locomotives that have been stored near South Jefferson Street for decades.  Moving north starting today...

http://www.roanoke.com/news/roanoke/wb/168637

I believe that this is a Class W2, 2-8-0.   The others there are 4-8-0's.

Bill

With reasonable men, I will reason; with humane men I will plead; but to tyrants I will give no quarter, nor waste arguments where they will certainly be lost. William Lloyd Garrison

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