Just Passin' Through

[dogrokket]

Anybody recognize this Loco? It was parked at our transportation museum in Roanoke for a week before it disappeared...

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[Chacal]

I'm gonna guess it's Wabash 1009.
And that it's going to Spencer, NC.


SPENCER, N.C. — The N.C. Transportation Museum and the N.C. Transportation Museum Foundation are adding two locomotives to list of attending this year’s Streamliners at Spencer event. The four-day festival, May 29 – June 1, will celebrate classic streamliner locomotives of the 1930s through 1950s, gathering the engines around the historic Bob Julian Roundhouse at the N.C.TransportationMuseum.

With the addition of the Wabash E8 No. 1009 and the Pan Am Railways No. 1, the total number of engines attending “Streamliners at Spencer” is now 16. Additional units will be announced in the coming weeks.

The Wabash E8 No. 1009 is notable as the 10,000 unit produced by General Motors Electro-Motive Division. This locomotive pulled Wabash passenger trains, such as the Banner Blue, the Wabash Cannonball and the Blue Bird.

When the Wabash Railroad came under Norfolk & Western control in 1964, No. 1009 was sent to the transportation museum in Roanoke, Va. The unit underwent a complete cosmetic restoration in the last year at Norfolk Southern’s shop in Chattanooga, Tenn. The restoration will allow the unit to appear Streamliners at Spencer event.

http://www.nctrans.org/Streamliners-At- ... ed-to.aspx

[dogrokket]

I'm gonna guess it's Wabash 1009.
And that it's going to Spencer, NC.

Actually, it's owned by our own transpo museum in Roanoke. Great static engine; according to one of the museum volunteers, it's not operable. Too bad, but according to a volunteer, it would need the diesels replaced. It's sitting on the track where the 611 was. It was probably refurbished in Spencer though...