Anything is possible, and it wouldn't be as expensive of a restoration as most people think.....but you have to have somewhere to run it. Remember, Strasburg and Spencer were options long before the 611 was restored.
Sad to say, but short of something changing for the positive in the near future, I see the end result of 611 going back on display in Roanoke. It's just hardly worth the effort for something that size if all you can do is run it on 4 miles of track.
Find a place to run the engine enough to justify putting the money into it, you'll see 1218 under steam again. But you have to have the place to run it.
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