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Title: |
611 is being prepped |
Description: |
611 sits outside the small maintenance shop at Montview Yard. |
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6/9/2015 Upload Date: 2/6/2023 9:44:29 PM |
Location: |
Lynchburg, VA |
Author: |
Luis May |
Categories: |
Steam |
Locomotives: |
NW 611(4-8-4) |
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61 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
611 is being prepped |
Description: |
Another view through the trees.. The south side of the Montview shop is not easy to photograph. |
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6/9/2015 Upload Date: 2/6/2023 9:49:44 PM |
Location: |
Lynchburg, VA |
Author: |
Luis May |
Categories: |
Steam |
Locomotives: |
NW 611(4-8-4) |
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56 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
Staging |
Description: |
Southern 66538 carries the excavator used to load 611's tender. |
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6/9/2015 Upload Date: 2/7/2023 8:29:01 PM |
Location: |
Lynchburg, VA |
Author: |
Luis May |
Categories: |
RollingStock |
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48 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
Coal loader |
Description: |
A look inside 66538's interior, showing the support beams for the excavator. Left-over coal and rain puddles fill the now-emptied gon behind it. |
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6/9/2015 Upload Date: 2/7/2023 8:32:39 PM |
Location: |
Lynchburg, VA |
Author: |
Luis May |
Categories: |
RollingStock |
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86 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
Staging |
Description: |
The train is parked on the track next to the access road (sans 611, which was parked on the other end of Montview Yard) as a local rolls in. |
Photo Date: |
6/9/2015 Upload Date: 2/7/2023 8:49:08 PM |
Location: |
Lynchburg, VA |
Author: |
Luis May |
Categories: |
Passenger |
Locomotives: |
NS 3355(SD40-2) |
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59 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
The cars are ready |
Description: |
The cars are ready for the passengers to come aboard |
Photo Date: |
6/13/2015 Upload Date: 2/6/2023 9:53:54 PM |
Location: |
Lynchburg, VA |
Author: |
Luis May |
Categories: |
Passenger |
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86 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
The cars are ready |
Description: |
The cars are ready to begin loading passengers |
Photo Date: |
6/13/2015 Upload Date: 2/6/2023 10:03:25 PM |
Location: |
Lynchburg, VA |
Author: |
Luis May |
Categories: |
Passenger |
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122 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
The cars are ready |
Description: |
The cars are ready to load the passemgers |
Photo Date: |
6/13/2015 Upload Date: 2/6/2023 10:09:09 PM |
Location: |
Lynchburg, VA |
Author: |
Luis May |
Categories: |
Passenger |
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115 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
The head-end |
Description: |
The "business" end of power car NS 42, with baggage car N&W 1407 and the water tender of 611. |
Photo Date: |
6/13/2015 Upload Date: 2/6/2023 10:12:10 PM |
Location: |
Lynchburg, VA |
Author: |
Luis May |
Categories: |
Passenger |
Locomotives: |
NW 611(4-8-4) |
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116 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
The head end |
Description: |
Another view of the baggage car and water tender |
Photo Date: |
6/13/2015 Upload Date: 2/6/2023 10:17:04 PM |
Location: |
Lynchburg, VA |
Author: |
Luis May |
Categories: |
Passenger |
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118 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
Getting ready |
Description: |
The crew gets 611 ready for her trip |
Photo Date: |
6/13/2015 Upload Date: 2/6/2023 10:20:54 PM |
Location: |
Lynchburg, VA |
Author: |
Luis May |
Categories: |
Steam |
Locomotives: |
NW 611(4-8-4) |
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68 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
The power car |
Description: |
A full-side view of power car 42, named "Tennessee" |
Photo Date: |
6/13/2015 Upload Date: 2/6/2023 10:23:05 PM |
Location: |
Lynchburg, VA |
Author: |
Luis May |
Categories: |
Passenger |
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109 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
The loading begins |
Description: |
Some passengers are already aboard, as others walk up. Note NS 26, "New York" is a fluted-side car, not smooth like the others. |
Photo Date: |
6/13/2015 Upload Date: 2/6/2023 10:26:15 PM |
Location: |
Lynchburg, VA |
Author: |
Luis May |
Categories: |
Passenger |
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89 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
The loading begins |
Description: |
WATX 539 is painted in Norfolk And Western colors, with "Powhatan Arrow" script on the sides, like many of the other cars in the train. |
Photo Date: |
6/13/2015 Upload Date: 2/6/2023 10:31:03 PM |
Location: |
Lynchburg, VA |
Author: |
Luis May |
Categories: |
Passenger |
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82 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
The loading begins |
Description: |
The Paul Revere lounge car is one of two Pennsylvania cars, and is a Budd car; note the corrugated roof. The second car is also a Budd, but has lost its side fluting. |
Photo Date: |
6/13/2015 Upload Date: 2/6/2023 10:36:56 PM |
Location: |
Lynchburg, VA |
Author: |
Luis May |
Categories: |
Passenger |
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57 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
A long train |
Description: |
This shot shows most of the train, including the dome car. It also shows the gondolas that supplied the coal, and the excavator that was used to load the 611's tender. |
Photo Date: |
6/13/2015 Upload Date: 2/6/2023 10:45:12 PM |
Location: |
Lynchburg, VA |
Author: |
Luis May |
Categories: |
Passenger |
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68 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
The Southern lives! |
Description: |
Two Southern cars; one a passenger car, the other a gondola, which was used to carry the excavator in transit. |
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6/13/2015 Upload Date: 2/6/2023 10:50:10 PM |
Location: |
Lynchburg, VA |
Author: |
Luis May |
Categories: |
Passenger |
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65 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
One ratty car |
Description: |
This was the one ratty-looking car in the train. The sides are still good, but the roof does not! |
Photo Date: |
6/13/2015 Upload Date: 2/6/2023 10:55:12 PM |
Location: |
Lynchburg, VA |
Author: |
Luis May |
Categories: |
Passenger |
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92 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
Another dome |
Description: |
Northern Pacific-painted, CB&Q sub-lettered, "Stampede Pass" named, Budd-built dome car. |
Photo Date: |
6/13/2015 Upload Date: 2/6/2023 11:00:38 PM |
Location: |
Lynchburg, VA |
Author: |
Luis May |
Categories: |
Passenger |
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93 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
Full dome |
Description: |
The dome probably has more passengers today than when it operated for the Great Northern! The Prairie View is now owned by the Iowa Pacific. |
Photo Date: |
6/13/2015 Upload Date: 2/6/2023 11:03:58 PM |
Location: |
Lynchburg, VA |
Author: |
Luis May |
Categories: |
Passenger |
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60 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
Rare car |
Description: |
This is one of only three cars of this type built, an ex-Seaboard Air Line Sun Lounge brings up the rear. |
Photo Date: |
6/13/2015 Upload Date: 2/6/2023 11:12:38 PM |
Location: |
Lynchburg, VA |
Author: |
Luis May |
Categories: |
Passenger |
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47 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
Rare car |
Description: |
A closer view of the car, Hollywood Beach. As built, the car had five double bedrooms, a buffet, and a 21-seat lounge at the rear, with the oversized windows and skylights. The closest thing to a dome found on the Eastern seaboard before Amtrak and Autotrain. |
Photo Date: |
6/13/2015 Upload Date: 2/6/2023 11:13:14 PM |
Location: |
Lynchburg, VA |
Author: |
Luis May |
Categories: |
Passenger |
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58 Comments: 0 |
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