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[QUOTE]Originally posted by palmland: [QB] Trains.com reported this yesterday: "Newly restored Southern Railway 2-8-2 No. 4501 will make its grand return to steam Sept. 6-7 at the Tennessee Valley Railfest in Chattanooga. The public debut of the locomotive will feature a dedication at Railfest." Also, last weekend I was in Spencer, NC again. Preston Claytor put on a program and tour about the restoration progress of N&W 611. All the streamlined sheathing is carefully stored in the huge back shop building, along with vintage vehicles and a Piedmont airlines DC-3 (to be restored but now in pieces) 611 is still on schedule for a spring debut. Nothing major unearthed in the dis-assembly and inspection process. The back sheet needs work but mostly a labor not material issue. Much of the credit for its good condition goes to the great care taken when it was mothballed in the 90's. Scott Linday of [URL=http://www.steamoperations.com/]Steam Operations Corp.[/URL] was closely involved then and is now the prime contractor restoring it. That will be quite a day when 4501 and 611 meet again, under steam. Claytor promised at least one excursion out of Spencer for 611 as the NC Transp. Museum has been such a good host. One interesting tidbit: as big as their roundhouse is, 611 just barely fits - without its tender. A roundhouse built in the 1920's clearly wasn't designed for the modern steam power of 1950. Engine and tender hang over the edge of their 100' turntable - about 5' at each end. For those wanting to be on the priority list for notification of the excursions before the public, Claytor suggested a donation of $611.00 to [URL=http://fireup611.org/?page_id=16]'Fire Up 611'[/URL]. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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