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You probably missed a couple of remarkable events Wednesday before sunrise in Roanoke. One was, Gary Duerk turned 75 — more about his atypical birthday plans below.
The second occurred just off Salem Avenue between First and Second streets downtown about 6 a.m. Shortly after Duerk and his wife, Barbara, arrived on their bicycles at Roanoke’s Amtrak platform, they dismounted and pushed them onto a passenger train.
That was a milestone — those were the first wheeled-on bikes ever in a Northeast Regional passenger car in Virginia. They won’t be the last. Beginning next month, it’ll occur throughout the commonwealth. ....

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