I believe, I caught a comment recently, that the Y6b #2156 Norfolk & Western locomotive was on the ‘move’ ?
Near the end of its ‘loan’ time at V.M.T. is it being returned back to the St. Louis area Museum of Transport??? I further recalled that there were some ‘negotiations’ being conducted to see if #2156 could stay in Roanoke???
Anyone, Further information, Please! [:-^]
It is indeed on the move:
All good things come to an end.
I understand there were some negotiations about extending the stay, or possibly swapping something out of the VMT’s collection for the Y6, but nothing came of it.
You’re right, it does! Jeez, why didn’t I think of that? Someone should have dropped a smoke bomb down the stack for the effect!
Looks to me like a 20-car troop train being pulled by an E-3 Pacific because it was all the dispatcher had left on the ready tracks stalled out on the Christianburg grade. The 2156 was following the troop train on a time freight, and with power of the Y6a available right behind, the dispatcher let the 2156 come up on the troop train’s markers and give it a push over the top.
Here is about 3 minutes of the real deal.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j9BkyiHYEro
And here is 31 minutes of As, Ys, and a few Zs.