The NW Class J 611

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Dear Kenneth Miller,

You wrote a GREAT book! I recomend it to any N&W fan!

Please excuse me for disturbe you, but your book presents one of the few 
pictures of the un-streamlined pictures in actual service. Are there any 
other pictures? Are them available, or printes in any othe book?

tks,

Luiz Affonso Saraiva
a N&W fan from Brazil

nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org wrote:


> Jerry

>

> You can read a detailed report in Chapter 9 of my book, Norfolk and 

> Western Class J, pages 97-101. However, basically, human error is 

> probably to blame, it was suspected that the engineer may have had a 

> heart attack as no effort was made to slow the train for the speed 

> restricted curve at Cedar, West Virginia. That seems to have been 

> ruled out, but medical science may have found different results today. 

> My feeling is that the engineer, a 30 year veteran, was used to 

> running fast, lost track of exactly where he was, got distracted and 

> missed the speed board, and was too far into the curve for a brake 

> application.

>

> Ken Miller

>

> On Aug 7, 2005, at 11:57 PM, nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org wrote:

>

>> Hi gang,

>>  

>> Probably an old question to some of the veteran members here, but, 

>> does anyone have any official information regarding NW 611's 

>> derailment back in the 1950's? I understood it to be human error, can 

>> anyone confirm this?

>>  

>> Jerry Butler

>>  

>>   

>>

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