WDBJ7 Roanoke News and Weather NRV Lynchburg Danville | Steam locomotive moved to the transportation museum in Roanoke
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Engine #1151 was built at Norfolk & Western Railway's Roanoke Shops back in 1911.If you saw a steam locomotive going right through downtown Roanoke Friday afternoon, you're not losing it!
After sitting in the Virginia Scrap Iron and Metal Co. yard for almost 60 years, Engine #1151 was cut in half and trucked over to the transportation museum. The move drew an audience of all ages.
The engine was built at Norfolk & Western Railway's Roanoke Shops back in 1911.
The museum's director, Bev Fitzpatrick, says it could be decades before the museum is able to properly restore the engine.
