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For all RR buffs
She's home. Our old 611 J class steam engine is home. She was built here in Roanoke Va. She is the fastest passenger steam engine ever built, able to sustain 110 MPH. The largest single steam locomotive ever built was built here. It was just shy of one million pounds and 5000 hp, when fully loaded ready to go. There was 14 class Js built the 611 is the only one remaining.
Yesterday the 611 came rumbling up the valley puffing fire, blowing steam and smoke and sounding those horns. What a sound. Takes me back in time 60 years to when I was a little boy and our Father would take us over on the hill over looking the N&W and Virginian railroad lines on Sunday afternoon so we could watch the trains.
Lynwood
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