NEW INFO!!!!!! Ex-Wabash E8A !!!!!!!!!!! Was originally #1009 and the 10,000th. Diesel made by EMD.

Name	Type	Comments	Date

steven langsford	General	LOOKS LIKE A OLD PRR E UNIT	1/18/2005 12:07:13 PM

Rob Furney Jr	General	I'll have to do some hunting, see if I can't the picture of this ole girl when she was spit and polished Wabash back at Wasena Park.	4/8/2005 5:50:33 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 9:35:46 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 4:19:49 AM

Steve Smith	General	Update, The deal between VMT and The Roanoke Chapter never materialized, and a restore more for the other never worked out. As it stands right now the RF&P E8 is still stored, though the Wabash E8 is presently undergoing cosmetic restoration in Norfolk Southerns Hands for VMT	1/10/2014 10:02:16 PM

NEW INFO!!!!!! Ex-Wabash E8A !!!!!!!!!!! Was originally #1009 and the 10,000th. Diesel made by EMD.
Thanks to Rob Furney for bringing the concrete info. needed on these 2 E8's.
Date: 1/17/2005	Location: Roanoke, VA	Views: 5180	Collection Of: Virgil Fitzpatrick
Locomotives: WAB 1008(E8A)			Author: Virgil Fitzpatrick

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

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