NW-Mailing-List Digest, Vol 20, Issue 9

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Good Afternoon Listers,

Two interesting facts that might be of some interest to many readers:

Of all of the many paid trips I made on the 611 as Pilot Engineer on the 
Columbus District of the Scioto Division from Portsmouth to Columbus and a 
few trips to Bellevue, Ohio. I was paid at the rate of 494,000 pounds 
Weight-On-Drivers which was in fact the total engine wt..  The actual Wt. On 
Drivers was 288,000 pounds.

When I worked as Pilot Engineer on A No. 1218, I was paid Wt-On-Drivers of 
582,900 pounds which was the actual engine wt. where it should have been 
522,850 pounds, the actual Wt-On-Drivers.

The pay department never did catch this mistake and correct it. And I was 
not about to make any comments on the incorrect figures as I wasn't about to 
cut my pay.


And I believe that pulling power had just as much to do with the quality of 
the roadbed the other factors such as FOA.  The N&W road bed in steam days 
was superior to the vast majority of others and that they did not need to 
claim or quote such high FOA's.


Tom "N&W" Dressler, Ret. N&W Engineers Columbus District, Scioto Division.