Help Us Save the Lost Engines of Roanoke!
The Western Virginia Railroad Preservation Society (TWVRPS) has launched a fundraising campaign to assist the Virginia Museum of Transportation in rescuing the remaining locomotives from the Virginia Scrap Iron & Metal yard. With the yard slated for redevelopment, the time for action is now. Please support TWVRPS in their efforts to save the engines.
TWVRPS Press Release
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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7/26/08 - $1118 Pledge Kicks Off Fundraising Campaign
On behalf of the Lost Engines of Roanoke Website, I have pledged the symbolic sum of $1118 to the Western Virginia Railroad Preservation Society's fundraising campaign. Please join me in support of this effort to save the remaining locomotives in the Roanoke scrapyard.
7/14/08 - Fundraising Campaign Launched to Save the Lost Engines
The Western Virginia Railroad Preservation Society announces a fundraising campaign to rescue the remaining historic railroad equipment in the Roanoke scrapyard.
TWVRPS Press Release
7/9/08 - 917 SAVED!!!
Norfolk & Western 917 was loaded onto a truck on July 8, 2008 for delivery to her new home in Bellville, Ohio.
Click here for photos and coverage of the move.
View older news updates here.
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