Last but not least.
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Sweet picture.
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Nice. The tower in the picture “HUNT” is Huntingdon, PA. Not far from EBT country. Last I knew it was being operate as a museum and was open for tours. We visited 6 or 7 years ago. It’s a great place to watch trains from.
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NOW THAT IS SWEET!!!
Jon Radder said:
Nice. The tower in the picture “HUNT” is Huntingdon, PA. Not far from EBT country. Last I knew it was being operate as a museum and was open for tours. We visited 6 or 7 years ago. It’s a great place to watch trains from.
It appears to be leading the NS Business consist…I also read recently that Alto in Altoona (one of the last functional towers) will soon be defunct…
ALTO is closed. I think it was last week, the interlocking as been reconfigured and control moved to Pittsburgh. The tower and interlocking machine will be preserved, except someone already broke in and stole some handles and other items. The tower is going to be moved. Might be going to the PA Museum in Strassburg, but there are conflicting reports.
Update on ALTO from Altoona Works on Facebook…
A little news to report on ALTO tower: According to Norfolk Southern Resident Vice President of Government Relations Rudy Husband, “NS is pursuing the option to secure Alto in place
and work with a conservancy to preserve and restore it.”
Looks like I will be in Spencer July 4th for the “Family Portrait”.
Ralph
http://www.nctrans.org/Events/NS-Heritage-Locomotives--A-Family-Portrait-July-3-.aspx
They’re all at Spencer now. NS must of used a bucket truck for this shot 
Ralph
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Now thats a sweet picture…
WOW!!! and WOW…WOW… Boy I wish I had been the lucky photog to get to shoot that set-up.
Now guys… A while back I asked about the cost of one of those beasts… General agreement was $1.2M each.
That my friends represents $25,200,000.oo investment to make one hell of a great picture…
Thank you! Norfolk Southern Co.
I really hope UP, BNSF and CN is paying attention to the milage in the press and in the train world this is generating,
Dave
I think UP did their heritage schemes a few years ago.
BNSF heritage would be nice, though.
Still praying for CP to do heritage units - especially d&h and SOO 
Soo Line would be cool!
Right in my back yard 15 mins from the house.
One word, WOW! Even my wife said the same.
Don’t know if anyone has seen this one. It’s the NKP 765 with the NS/NKP heritage pulling the NS employee steam excursion. NS said this was a dead head to Virginia. You’ll see the water tender or “canteen” behind the 765 and the gons are full of fuel for the 'ole girl. Word has it that the 765 is on long term lease to NS. If anyone has any other details please share.
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Btw, in case anyone missed it, there are pictures of the July 4th gathering of the heritage units here: http://www.largescalecentral.com/LSCForums/viewtopic.php?id=17040
Ralph
Terry - The EBT mail list is all a-buzz about 765 passing by Mt. Union, PA on the way to Enola in Harrisburg. Horseshoe Curve has been advertising a special Steam on the Curve ticket for days that 765 will be running by. I can copy some of the dates for you if you want.
On the way back from Canada/eastern US trip, we were going around Columbus, just in time to see a Steam engine pass under the Columbus 460 loop, heading into downtown, leaving a nice smoke plume in it’s wake… of course, traveling in traffic, at 65 MPH, I couldn’t look at it much…
NS really has the PR machine working on these heritage units, even the animation on the main web page is cool - http://www.nscorp.com/nscportal/nscorp/