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Old 04-22-2020, 01:34 PM   #24
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If you are seeing trains stop by Roanoke Va and see our 911. It was built right here in the N&W shops, now Norfolk and Southern. It weighs almost a million pounds fully loaded and will pull a passenger train at 110 MPH. It’s an awesome machine fully restored. It’s in the transportation museum. And while you are here check out the Blueridge Parkway. It’s worth seeing too. In fact I think a must see.
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Hey folks, Just a little FYI here the Engine MLH is referring to is N&W 611, not 911. Folks start googling it they will find something very different. It is one of the most amazing machines ever built by man as far as I am concerned. Currently at the NC Transportation Museum close to Charlotte NC.
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