NEW INFO!!!!! Ex RF&P E8A #1002

Name	Type	Comments	Date

steven langsford	General	ITS GOT TO BE A OLD PRR E UNIT	1/18/2005 12:07:42 PM

Anthony N. Chando	General	The Reading & Northern sold thier PRR E-8a's.	1/21/2005 6:42:24 PM

Rob Furney Jr	General	The lead E8 is indeed an ex-Wabash. I have pictures of it as Wabash 1001 at the old museum in Wasena Park. It was some anniversary engine for EMD too. I think it was the 100,000th engine they built, or something like that. The rear I have heard rumors that the unit pictured here is an ex-RF&P, and also that it is an ex Southern. Can't confirm either tho. Sorry.	4/8/2005 5:49:19 PM

Rob Furney Jr	General	Bad news on these old gals. Found on another site that these two E8s were coupled in to a train at Schaffer's Crossing on Sunday, July 17th, 2005, with the words "SCRAP" spray painted on their sides. Seems a shame for the VMT to let them go like that. Esp. the RF&P E8.	7/18/2005 9:36:21 AM

Steve Smith	General	Sorry Guys, but correction here, for the good. The units are not going to scrap the Wabash E8 is going to be cosmetically restored for the VMT by the Roanoke Chapter NRHS, in trade for the RF&P E8. So The Chapter restores one (Wab) and gets to keep the other (RF&P). As for all the other VMT items in storage in the yards thats just it they are in storage for up to two years, just so happens they are in company with the NS scrap lines.	3/12/2006 4:24:02 AM

NEW INFO!!!!! Ex RF&P E8A #1002
Thanks to Rob Furney for bringing the concrete info. needed on these 2 E8's.
Date: 1/17/2005	Location: Roanoke, VA	Views: 2540	Collection Of: Virgil Fitzpatrick
Locomotives: RFP 1002(E8A)			Author: Virgil Fitzpatrick

Picture Categories:		This picture is part of album: Roanoke Invasion

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