#2156 Y6b N&W Status?

[samfp1943]

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!  

[SD70Dude]

It is indeed on the move:

https://railpictures.net/photo/738982/

[Flintlock76]

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.

[kgbw49]

SD70Dude

It is indeed on the move:

https://railpictures.net/photo/738982/

Thanks for the link, SD70Dude! Looks like it is in helper service!

 

[Flintlock76]

kgbw49

Thanks 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!

[kgbw49]

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