Tomorrow will mark exactly one week till the doors of the train halls at York will OPEN>... Hooorrrrraaaaaaaaayyyyyyyyy!!!!!!
on a serious note I think that someone else is going to start the weekend photo fun?
You mised the opportunity to send an announcement yesterday that there'd be an announcement today about the announcement two days hence...
Check the stock market news, under mergers to be announced, Lionel and MTH.
on a serious note I think that someone else is going to start the weekend photo fun?
Why, I even have my pictures ready?
Scott Smith
After looking at the above photo, I suspect scott.smith's hat will have a VERY deep crease
He's running for president.
G
Well, it's too late know, as the NS social media site has stated that there will be an "announcement at 6:11 AM tomorrow morning". You guys figure out what THAT means.
It is either:
1) Scott is running the Thursday York Weeny Roast this year.
or
2) Scott is getting Gender Reassignment Surgery.
How many town in the US are named "York"? (This includes any version, such as "New"
or "South" or "Old", and so on.)
There's one in NY state.
There's one in PA.
There's one in Alabama (where there's also an Altoona).
So - who here has the rest of this knowledge?
Originally Posted by Joe Hohmann:
Originally Posted by Hot Water:
. 52 year old Mr. Ray Kroc opened his first hamburger stand, in Des Plaines, IL on this date in 1955. Later to become world famous as "McDonald's".
Not quite true. Ray Kroc, a milk shake mixer salesman, bought the McDonald brothers hamburger stands and turned them into a chain.
I was shown Ray Crock's office at McDonalds HQ, which is untouched since the day he died. McDonalds tends to "embellish" their "founding father" a bit.
He wasn't still in his chair....was he? 
Dave
A 6:11am announcement.
Notch 6 for the win....
Via the Trains Newswire:
ROANOKE, Va. – Legendary Norfolk & Western Class J No. 611 will shake off 20 years of inactivity to pull its first mainline passenger train May 30 from its restoration site in Spencer, N.C., to its hometown of Roanoke where a gala celebration awaits the reborn 4-8-4.
Later, you will have 11 opportunities to ride or photograph the Tuscan red streamlined beauty in action on Virginia rails in June and July with departures from Manassas, Lynchburg, and Roanoke, officials with the Virginia Museum of Transportation say.
Trains News Wire has learned that the 2015 Norfolk Southern excursion plans will also be announced soon for the Fort Wayne Railroad Historical Society’s Nickel Plate Road 2-8-4 No. 765, as well as the Tennessee Valley Railroad Museum’s Southern Railway 2-8-2 No. 4501.
The 220-mile, one-way May 30 trip will see the powerful Class J stride along the former Southern Railway main line and enter home rails at Lynchburg. There, the engine will retrace its regular service route when it pulled N&W’s named passenger trains across the fabled Blue Ridge grade. The locomotive is expected to arrive between 2 and 4 p.m., stopping at the O. Winston Link Museum in the former N&W passenger station in downtown Roanoke. The engine is expected to run with no diesel helpers.
The train will be for invited guests and VIPs and no tickets will be sold. The celebration at the depot will be free and open to the public and additional events will be announced for that weekend, Virginia Museum of Transportation officials say. May 30 is significant because it is 65 years and one day after the engine entered service, and one year after its appearance at the Streamliners at Spencer festival, kicking off the restoration at the North Carolina Transportation Museum in Spencer.
The first opportunity for the public to ride behind No. 611 will come the following weekend with excursions between Manassas and Riverton Junction, a 102-mile roundtrip on former Southern Railway tracks. A morning trip will take place June 6 and both morning and afternoon trips will take place June 7. This takes place during the 21st annual Manassas Heritage Railway Festival.
The following weekend, June 13 and 14, the engine will pull 260-mile round trip excursions between Lynchburg and Petersburg.
Independence Day weekend will see No. 611 running July 3, 4, and 5 from its hometown. Each day it will pull morning trips from Roanoke to Lynchburg, a 98-mile roundtrip, and each afternoon it will pull a 42-mile roundtrip to Walton and back. The afternoon trips send the locomotive across famed Christiansburg grade.
Donors to the Fire Up 611! Campaign will receive ticket ordering information by mail and tickets will go on sale to the general public May 6. More information will be available soon at www.fireup611.org.
Last week, restoration crews insulated the locomotive’s massive, 300 psi boiler. Jacketing and painting are to come next. A test fire to test appliances will precede test runs.
The Class J locomotive was built at Roanoke in 1950 as one of 14. It operated in revenue service until 1959. No. 611 was placed on display in Roanoke’s Wasena Park, was restored in 1981, and began a second career pulling excursions in 1982. That ended in 1994 and the current Fire Up 611! campaign is responsible for the locomotive’s 2015 return to service.
The Virginia Museum of Transportation launched a study on the 611’s restoration in 2013 and concluded that $3.5 million was needed to restore, operate, and house the locomotive and another $1.5 million would be needed for an endowment. Contributions to date have totaled more than $3 million from across the U.S. and 19 countries. The museum continues to raise funds for an on-campus shop and education facility, and hopes to break ground on the building in summer 2015.
Donations to the Fire Up 611! Campaign can be made through www.fireup611.org.
Trains Magazine will cover No. 611 with its live streaming webcam, a feature in the August issue, and a special 76-page magazine, 611 in Steam and a companion DVD by the same name, available in July and October, respectively.
Via the Trains Newswire:
ROANOKE, Va. – Legendary Norfolk & Western Class J No. 611 will shake off 20 years of inactivity to pull its first mainline passenger train May 30 from its restoration site in Spencer, N.C., to its hometown of Roanoke where a gala celebration awaits the reborn 4-8-4.
Later, you will have 11 opportunities to ride or photograph the Tuscan red streamlined beauty in action on Virginia rails in June and July with departures from Manassas, Lynchburg, and Roanoke, officials with the Virginia Museum of Transportation say.
Trains News Wire has learned that the 2015 Norfolk Southern excursion plans will also be announced soon for the Fort Wayne Railroad Historical Society’s Nickel Plate Road 2-8-4 No. 765, as well as the Tennessee Valley Railroad Museum’s Southern Railway 2-8-2 No. 4501.
The 220-mile, one-way May 30 trip will see the powerful Class J stride along the former Southern Railway main line and enter home rails at Lynchburg. There, the engine will retrace its regular service route when it pulled N&W’s named passenger trains across the fabled Blue Ridge grade. The locomotive is expected to arrive between 2 and 4 p.m., stopping at the O. Winston Link Museum in the former N&W passenger station in downtown Roanoke. The engine is expected to run with no diesel helpers.
The train will be for invited guests and VIPs and no tickets will be sold. The celebration at the depot will be free and open to the public and additional events will be announced for that weekend, Virginia Museum of Transportation officials say. May 30 is significant because it is 65 years and one day after the engine entered service, and one year after its appearance at the Streamliners at Spencer festival, kicking off the restoration at the North Carolina Transportation Museum in Spencer.
The first opportunity for the public to ride behind No. 611 will come the following weekend with excursions between Manassas and Riverton Junction, a 102-mile roundtrip on former Southern Railway tracks. A morning trip will take place June 6 and both morning and afternoon trips will take place June 7. This takes place during the 21st annual Manassas Heritage Railway Festival.
The following weekend, June 13 and 14, the engine will pull 260-mile round trip excursions between Lynchburg and Petersburg.
Independence Day weekend will see No. 611 running July 3, 4, and 5 from its hometown. Each day it will pull morning trips from Roanoke to Lynchburg, a 98-mile roundtrip, and each afternoon it will pull a 42-mile roundtrip to Walton and back. The afternoon trips send the locomotive across famed Christiansburg grade.
Donors to the Fire Up 611! Campaign will receive ticket ordering information by mail and tickets will go on sale to the general public May 6. More information will be available soon at www.fireup611.org.
Last week, restoration crews insulated the locomotive’s massive, 300 psi boiler. Jacketing and painting are to come next. A test fire to test appliances will precede test runs.
The Class J locomotive was built at Roanoke in 1950 as one of 14. It operated in revenue service until 1959. No. 611 was placed on display in Roanoke’s Wasena Park, was restored in 1981, and began a second career pulling excursions in 1982. That ended in 1994 and the current Fire Up 611! campaign is responsible for the locomotive’s 2015 return to service.
The Virginia Museum of Transportation launched a study on the 611’s restoration in 2013 and concluded that $3.5 million was needed to restore, operate, and house the locomotive and another $1.5 million would be needed for an endowment. Contributions to date have totaled more than $3 million from across the U.S. and 19 countries. The museum continues to raise funds for an on-campus shop and education facility, and hopes to break ground on the building in summer 2015.
Donations to the Fire Up 611! Campaign can be made through www.fireup611.org.
Trains Magazine will cover No. 611 with its live streaming webcam, a feature in the August issue, and a special 76-page magazine, 611 in Steam and a companion DVD by the same name, available in July and October, respectively.
Long live the Queen!
And here I thought it was Scott announcing he was bringing his laptop and printer to Thursdays so he could sign up new TCA members for York.
Craignor, I think Scott's wife already took care of the gender reassignment. Just as all our wives have tried to do or have done.
Rick
Hey! After 34 years with my wife, I still have mine.
Originally Posted by RICKC:
Originally Posted by RICKC:
Craignor, I think Scott's wife already took care of the gender reassignment. Just as all our wives have tried to do or have done.
Rick
Is it tomorrow yet?
My world makes sense again. The J is back.
Originally Posted by N&W Class J:
My world makes sense again. The J is back.
Don't beat around the bush, Chris. Tell us how you really feel.
That is good news.
I nailed it!!!!
The date for the 611 to return to the VTM????????
Peter
At 6:11 this morning the press release went out announcing the return of the N&W Class J #611 return to Roanoke and the excursion schedule.
More information can be found at:
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That's good news! Some day I want to see it. My favorite streamlined steamer is the N&W class J.
Link to the NS post: http://www.nscorp.com/content/...tcenturysteamex.html
I suppose this would be a good time to mention that I will be in Spencer NC a few days before the move home and I will have our podcast rig with me. I am finalizing interviews and hopefully one other surprise that is O gauge related.
If you can't make it down for the move home, Notch 6, Trains Magazine and a host of others will have you covered.
If you can't make it down for the move home, Notch 6, Trains Magazine and a host of others will have you covered.
Originally Posted by AGHRMatt:
Don't beat around the bush, Chris. Tell us how you really feel.
That is good news.
LOL...indeed it is Matt. I really have to get out more.
Originally Posted by Putnam Division:
The date for the 611 return to the VTM????????
Peter
Ding, ding ding! We've got a winner! Peter, when you get a chance give me a call about our "road trip".
Gilly
Originally Posted by Notch 6:
I suppose this would be a good time to mention that I will be in Spencer NC a few days before the move home and I will have our podcast rig with me. I am finalizing interviews and hopefully one other surprise that is O gauge related.
If you can't make it down for the move home, Notch 6, Trains Magazine and a host of others will have you covered.
If you can't make it down for the move home, Notch 6, Trains Magazine and a host of others will have you covered.
Our KORN News reporter Charlie Farquharsonon on the scene with the latest report!
Way to go Derek!
Absolutely great for the hobby.
Wow, that was fast!
I can't wait to hear, see, and ride behind the J611!
Good thing I got my Pocahontas set a few weeks ago...I can see the 611 run whenever I want!
From VMT email:
611 Excursion Schedule
Once she thunders home, the Class J 611 won't sit idle for long. The graceful, streamlined giant of a locomotive will participate in the Norfolk Southern 21st Century Steam excursion program in June and July.
"She will run free helping us remember and celebrate America's proud industrial heritage," Fitzpatrick said. "The 611 has the ability to transport passengers back in time to the golden age of passenger rail travel."
The Museum anticipates excursion tickets will go on sale to the general public on May 6. Donors to the Fire Up 611! Campaign who have made the restoration possible will receive additional ticketing information by mail. For more information on excursions and the Homecoming Celebrations, visit fireup611.org.
Date/Train Excursion dates and times are subject to change.
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Origin -Turn Point/Destination
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Saturday, June 6 | Manassas, Virginia to Front Royal, Virginia (Riverton Junction)
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Sunday, June 7 The American | Manassas, Virginia to Front Royal, Virginia
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Sunday, June 7 The American | Manassas, Virginia to Front Royal, Virginia
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Saturday, June 13 The Cavalier | Lynchburg, Virginia to Petersburg, Virginia
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Sunday, June 14 The Cavalier | Lynchburg, Virginia to Petersburg, Virginia
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Friday, July 3 The Pelican | Roanoke, Virginia to Lynchburg, Virginia
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Friday, July 3 The Powhatan Arrow | Roanoke, Virginia to Radford, Virginia (Walton Junction)
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Saturday, July 4 The Pelican | Roanoke, Virginia to Lynchburg, Virginia
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Saturday, July 4 | Roanoke, Virginia to Radford, Virginia (Walton Junction)
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Sunday, July 5 | Roanoke, Virginia to Lynchburg, Virginia
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Sunday, July 5 | Roanoke, Virginia to Radford, Virginia (Walton Junction) |
Originally Posted by scott.smith:
At 6:11 this morning the press release went out announcing the return of the N&W Class J #611 return to Roanoke and the excursion schedule.
More information can be found at:
Looks like Notch Six stole your thunder last night.
Originally Posted by OGR Webmaster:
765 - Youngstown to Ashtabula! Now I be able to make it to that one!
611 - Manassas to Front Royal! We will see!
Thanks Rich!
