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No. The NS towed her over to the O. Winston Link Museum for an event this weekend.
thank you, Big Jim!
ya know, jj, my question was:, was that smoke I saw coming out of the A as NS crews shoved it by the hotel?
it appeared that smoke was slowly streaming out of the stack as though there might be a fire in the firebox and I wondered if my eyes were deceiving me, was the webcam distorted............and since Jim lives near both the webcam home, the transportation, the hotel and Link museum, as opposed to Ill, I thought perhaps he might just have real eyes on the movement and could tell me if what I thought I was seeing was or wasn't. Yes, I was the empty hopper, caboose and SD40-2 that were shoving the A as they slowly passed over the new switch on the old passenger track.
"The O. Winston Link Museum celebrates its 10th anniversary with an exhibit of the famed railway photograpger's personal favorites and the commercial photography with which he made a living"
Reads the headlines in the Extra section of the Roanoke Times.
How was the smoke & flame effect from 1218's stack created?
Just as it was last summer during the Lerro Night Photo Shoot at VMT - a cutoff 55 gallon barrel lowered into the stack loaded with charcoal briquets and a liberal dose of starter fluid. Watch the one minute YouTube demo video below.
Below, the Norfolk Southern Night Photo taken last evening at the Link Museum by Staff Photographer Casey Thomason.
To view the full-sized image, CLICK HERE
Very interesting, thanks for posting those Bob.
My neighbor who's in his late 80's has a picture of a Big Boy being hauled thru town on The Milwaukee Road. I believe that it is #4017 but could be #4012 but anyways they stopped in town and for a publicity stunt and lit a small woodfire in it then tossed a car tire onto the fire to get some black smoke out the stacks.
The old tire trick was also used on the Penn at Northumberland back in '67 for a fake Pennsy steam-out. Made cover of RR magazine! Cheaper than an FRA rebuild !
Originally Posted by jaygee:
The old tire trick was also used on the Penn at Northumberland back in '67 for a fake Pennsy steam-out. Made cover of RR magazine! Cheaper than an FRA rebuild !
Nice try, but my friends Howard Serig, Mike Eagleson and I would have told them that you need innertubes to make really dense white smoke!
Kent Loudon
I sure hope that once the 611 is back up and running it doesn't look like a smoldering cookout is in the stack. I might be concerned about the quality of the rebuild
