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| After SUUSI, Eric and I drove my car to the Avis office in Roanoke, VA and picked up a Hyundai Access as the air conditioner in my car does not work. While in Roanoke, we visited the Virginia Transportation Museum. There were some very impressive steam engines built in the Norfolk and Western Shops right there in Roanoke. One of the huge ones was built in 1943 to pull coal trains. The other was built after the war in 1950 to pull passenger trains at 100 MPH, but was taken out of service in 1959. It seems they shut down the yard to build steam engines as they switched to diesel as diesel engines are mostly several standard diesel motors connected to generators and then electric motors to the drive wheels. Not the same process at all. The transition must have been difficult for the numerous workers on steam engines. There was a very helpful museum representative who told us all sorts of stuff and allowed us the pictures standing on the engines. |
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| Here is the WWII era Class A engine built in Roanoke. |
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| That evening we arrived in Raleigh, NC and checked into the Motel 6. Then we headed off to their Arboretun, Boggs Gardens, now renamed to Tanger Family Gardens (probably due to numerous more recent contributions). However, it was very nice and free to us. A couple had a small wedding at one of the pavillions (below). |
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