Going home

The Nickel Plate locomotive #763 has been on constant display at the Virginia Museum of Transportation, and its former self, the Roanoke Transportation Museum for more than forty years. Yesterday, #763 backed away from the museum and headed down Norfolk Southern's main line, ultimately bound for its home in Ohio.

The museum offered half-price admission for the day, not only to bring some extra bodies in the door, but also to be fair to people who showed up expecting to have full access to the rail yard, finding most of it cordoned off with caution tape.

We won't waste any more time with text. Here are some photos and a video from the day. Enjoy.

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