Looks to me like a 20-car troop train being pulled by an E-3 Pacific because it was all the dispatcher had left on the ready tracks stalled out on the Christianburg grade. The 2156 was following the troop train on a time freight, and with power of the Y6a available right behind, the dispatcher let the 2156 come up on the troop train's markers and give it a push over the top.
Here is about 3 minutes of the real deal.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j9BkyiHYEro
And here is 31 minutes of As, Ys, and a few Zs.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C0wmvZTyFYs
kgbw49Thanks for the link, SD70Dude! Looks like it is in helper service!
You're right, it does! Jeez, why didn't I think of that? Someone should have dropped a smoke bomb down the stack for the effect!
SD70Dude It is indeed on the move: https://railpictures.net/photo/738982/ Thanks for the link, SD70Dude! Looks like it is in helper service!
It is indeed on the move:
https://railpictures.net/photo/738982/
Thanks for the link, SD70Dude! Looks like it is in helper service!
All good things come to an end.
I understand there were some negotiations about extending the stay, or possibly swapping something out of the VMT's collection for the Y6, but nothing came of it.
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I believe, I caught a comment recently, that the Y6b #2156 Norfolk & Western locomotive was on the 'move' ?
Near the end of its 'loan' time at V.M.T. is it being returned back to the St. Louis area Museum of Transport??? I further recalled that there were some 'negotiations' being conducted to see if #2156 could stay in Roanoke???
Anyone, Further information, Please!
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