C&O 2765 Montgomery WV to New River 1993 Rich Melvin Engineer

@LLKJR posted:

I went to WVIT (Montgomery) 1969-1974  and the freshman dorm was U shaped with the courtyard facing the tracks.

Just as an FYI, that dorm was Maclin Hall.
It was a men's only dorm and I stayed there from the fall of 1984 to fall of 1986.
I was there every day in January 1985 when Ross Rowland and the 614T stopped to let the Montgomery Fire Department fill the tender with water.
On one of the last trips, Ross was tossing out ACE 3000 buttons and stickers from the cab.
Stored, some place, I still have that button.
I was told by one of the firemen in the later years, there was a fire hydrant installed some place close the passenger platform for the sole purpose of filling steam locomtives, but Rich maybe more information about that.

@Bryan Smith posted:

Just as an FYI, that dorm was Maclin Hall.

Bryan,

I could never forget Maclin Hall, lived there 2 years.  My second year there I was an RA worked the desk checking in incoming freshmen.  I remember a kid from New Jersey. His parents dropped him off got his room and headed back to Jersey.  The next morning he was there at 5:45 a.m. when I was there to open the office at 6:00 a.m.  I asked him why he was leaving he said the pictures in the college catalog looked really nice, but he was catching the 9:00 a.m. Greyhound buss to Richmond Va and then to Jersey.  Those engineers on the passenger trains loved to blow their horns.  The freight engineers out of Handley Yard kept it quiet as possible.

Going there and being a C&O fan offered a lot of rail fanning possibilities.

Larry

Thanks for the kind words. Can you post a link to the video you saw?

@Rich Melvin posted:

Thanks for the kind words. Can you post a link to the video you saw?

https://fb.watch/gZoXObaAxE/

Enjoy.

Larry

Wow - great video. Thx for the posting, Larry.
Rich - are you subjected to fitness exams, like airline pilots?

@Mark V. Spadaro posted:

Wow - great video. Thx for the posting, Larry.
Rich - are you subjected to fitness exams, like airline pilots?

He IS a comercial pilot!