Help Restore the Lost Engines of Roanoke!
The Western Virginia Railroad Preservation Society (TWVRPS) is continuing to raise funds to assist in the rescue and restoration of the "Lost Engines" of Roanoke. Although the locomotives are now saved from scrap, a long and expensive restoration process still awaits them. Please support the efforts to preserve these historic engines.
The Lost Engines of Roanoke is dedicated to four little-known survivors of the steam era. Hidden among the creepers at the Virginia Scrap Iron and
Metal Co. yard on South Jefferson Street in Roanoke, VA, are four steam engines that time forgot. Norfolk & Western locomotives
917, 1118, 1134, and 1151 have been there awaiting their fate since they were sold for scrap in 1950. This web site was started in 1997
to promote the preservation of these "Lost Engines".
Web site by Richard Jenkins.
For more information, please e-mail: rjenkins@railfan.net
A big THANK YOU to the following people who have contributed information and/or resources to make this site possible: Tom vonTrott, Laura K. Smith at Virginia Tech, Rhonda Howard at Norfolk Southern, Lori Swingle at the Denver
Public Library, Nathaniel Guest, Ken Miller, Jerry Murphy, Eddie Dove, and Richard Glueck
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