The Heritage engine that got me started when I saw it at the inaugural Railroad Days at Natural Tunnel in Duffield was the last one for me to catch working through Jonesborough. This is it, parked in the north tunnel, taken with my old D90, back in 2013.
It's taken over three years for the 1069 Virginian to finally get on a train that's moving down the Bristol line. On the Facing Book I saw a mention of it being in position to lead 27V from Walkertown NC but that train has a history of swapping or adding power in Roanoke, or being so low in the pecking order that it rolls through SWVa in the middle of the night. So I was pleasantly surprised to see that it was leading from Roanoke, during daylight hours. Now if it will just leave Bristol before dark ...
Once again it all worked out, and 27V left Bristol in tme for a lunch-time run through Jonesborough. I took these shots from the old loading ramp between 2nd and 3rd street, looking east toward the soon-to-be-rebuilt SR depot. The only thing that could've made it better would have been some cloud cover, blue-bird skies makes for lots of high contrast areas which is tough shooting
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I've seen all 20 of the Heritage motors on a train through Jonesborough!
(* marks the ones leading a train - to date that leaves only the Erie.)
#13 1065 Savannah and Atlanta *
#15 1066 New York Central *
#19 1067 Reading *
#12 1068 Erie
#1 1069 Virginian *
#8 1070 Wabash *
#16 1071 Central RR of New Jersey *
#11 1072 Illinois Terminal *
#4 1073 Penn Central *
#18 1074 Delaware Lackawanna *
#17 8025 Monongahela *
#2 8098 Conrail *
#10 8099k Southern *
#5 8100 Nickel Plate Road *
#7 8101 Central of Georgia *
#9 8102 Pennsylvania *
#14 8103 Norfolk and Western *
#3 8104 Lehigh Valley *
#6 8105 Interstate *
#20 8114 Norfolk Southern *
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These are the special interest engines I've seen.
6920 Honoring Our Veterans *
6963 GoRail *
630 Southern Railway Steam *
911 Honoring First Responders *
1030 The Forgotten Heritage Engine *
3170w Southern
4000 AC to DC Conversion
4001 AC to DC Conversion
