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CHW 662 |
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Built by Baldwin in 1946, this unit was one of three that would dieselize the Chesapeake Western. Retired in 1964, it would call the yard of Virginia Scrap Iron & Metal Company home for at least forty years, surviving floods and the elements alike, before being donated to VMT along with other rail equipment. The Roanoke Chapter NRHS restored it back to its beautiful CHW paint scheme in 2012, proving that anything in railroad preservation is possible. Here it sits on display, coincidently alongside former CHW 10, the Alco T-6 replacement that sent it and its sisters to the scrapyards back in the 1960s. |
| Photo Date: |
5/30/2014 Upload Date: 6/15/2014 11:40:56 PM |
| Location: |
Roanoke, VA |
| Author: |
Paul Koprowski |
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| Locomotives: |
CHW 662(DS44-660) CHW 10(T6) |
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CHW 663 |
| Description: |
Former Chesapeake Western Railway unit awaiting a cosmetic restoration like her sister unit over at the Virginia Museum of Transportation. Built by Baldwin in 1946, this unit sat at the Virginia Scrap Iron & Metal Company for many years before being saved along with CHW 662 and four former N&W steam locomotives. |
| Photo Date: |
5/29/2014 Upload Date: 2/21/2015 1:10:57 AM |
| Location: |
Roanoke, VA |
| Author: |
Paul Koprowski |
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| Locomotives: |
CHW 663(DS44-660) |
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815 Comments: 0 |
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