Six Years Ago…

by | Apr 23, 2012 | Uncategorized | 1 comment

It’s been almost six years since I met Wayne Ringer at the coffee shop in downtown Portsmouth (Virginia) for our first date. Six delightful years. At that first date, he handed me his business card, which affirmed that (just as he’d told me on that first...

Portsmouth’s Got a Brand-New Train

by | Aug 26, 2010 | Uncategorized | 0 comments

Recently, Norfolk and Western’s #1134 settled into its new home in downtown Portsmouth. According to the The Lost Engines of Roanoke website, the old steam locomotive was rescued from the Virginia Scrap Iron and Metal Yard in Roanoke, Virginia where it had been...