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[QUOTE]Originally posted by notelvis: [QB] Lovely painting Mr. Norman!!!!! And yes - BIG Southern steam such as this would look nice teamed up with the 611. I am told that the restoration of 4501 includes the addition of an automatic stoker for the first time! The magnificent beast in your painting is a 1917 Baldwin product from Southern's initial class of 4-8-2 locomotives. There were 23 of them and they were popular on the passenger trains operating in and out of Asheville, NC where a 4-6-2 just wouldn't do. For the record - the Skyland Special expired in about 1958...... just a few years before I was born. I was 6 when the last scheduled passenger train over Saluda, the last remnants of the Carolina Special, were discontinued a decade later. A framed copy of this painting - lifted from a Howard Fogg calandar - hangs on my office wall! It depicts the northbound 'Skyland Special' entering Saluda, NC..... the top of the steepest portion of the Saluda grade BUT not the highest point reached between Spartanburg, SC and Asheville, NC. The tracks are still in place on Saluda Mountain but the line is railbanked and isolated from the rest of the national railroad network by a mound of dirt blocking the tracks on either end. I'm not sure where the southern end of the embargo is located but on the North Carolina side it is in the community of Zirconia about 10 minutes driving from my office! [/QB][/QUOTE]
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