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• Wednesday

  today 73 years ago today

  today is a real special day. today is when the norfolk & western would roll out a new steam engine on may 29th 1950 that would become an icon for steam. the n&w employees of roanoke out shopped n&w class j 4-8-4 no. 611 from the n&w roanoke virginia shops. thus began a the career of one of the most highly advanced steam locomotives ever built. for 9 years the 611 and her 13 class j sisters worked hauling the n&w's passenger trains. but by the late 50's she and her sisters couldn't compete with

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• Monday

  happy memorial day/follow up

  now i just wanted to wish everyone a happy memorial day! as i always post on memorial day a big thank you to all the men and women who serve so that we can enjoy today.

  and second i wanted to do a follow up as csx released a video showing the seaboard coast line heritage unit (it was released last friday i was going to share but i was busy). so here's the video for the recent heritage unit from csx.

  

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• 1 week

  well i done it again

  i just wanted to share that i did win the bid on the 4th thomas tape i was looking for. (the tape was the gallent old engine tape). i thought i wouldn't win it but i did. so that is now 4 of the 5 tapes i said i'd go for. the last one i need is the sing along and stories tape (they keep showing the re-release version for sale but i want to look for the original tape released in 1997). maybe i may get lucky that someone will sell it new like the other 4 tapes i've found so i just will keep

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• 1 week

  a post for today

  on the afternoon of may 22nd 2011 the us would witness one of the most violent tornadoes to strike in modern history. today is the 13th anniversary of the joplin tornado.

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• 1 week

  csx's has done it again

  I just learned that csx has released the 14th heritage unit no. 1967 for the seaboard coast line and it's a pretty impressive unit. as I said this was another one of those road names I had hope they'd do and they did. they're coming close to finishing the gap of the total of units they're doing after a year since they started this project. now the pittsburgh & lake erie unit is the next one and the csx equipment updates page shared concept art for the 16th unit (going to wait to say what that

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