Cylinder valve

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Sounds like a bypass valve.  Please see my articles in "The Arrow" 27:4, 
pages 15-17; and 28:1 (the most recent issue), pages 11-13.

Louis Newton

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>   1. "Takin' Twenty" with the Virginian Brethren by Skip Salmon

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>   2. Cylinder Valve (NW Mailing List)

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> Last night I had the pleasure of "Takin' Twenty" with six of the

> Brethren and Friends of the Virginian Railway. I told them of the

> pre-construction meeting we had Tuesday with the contractors and all

> involved, concerning the beginning of Phase I construction, toward

> restoration of the Virginian Passenger Station and Depot in Roanoke. The

> contract is in place with G&H Contracting of Salem, VA and their

> abatement work to remove asbestos and lead from the site is scheduled to

> start next Monday. Our meeting ended on the site, and I turned over keys

> to the security fence and building to G&H. We will have an official

> press release/groundbreaking March 7, 2012 at 11 AM, at the Station, and

> all of you are invited to attend!

>

> Passed out to the Brethren were copies of the latest N&W(and VGN)

> Historical Society "The Arrow" magazine. This issue's cover has a

> panorama shot of a coal train rounding the "S" curve at Herndon,WV when

> the town was being build. This issue is mostly VGN stuff with "The

> Electric VGN, Part 2", as the lead. Yours truly contributed page 4 and 5

> with an article and two photos (one of mine and one from the Archives)

> about the old barn at Kumis and what it has seen over the years. "Tied

> to the Past" is the re-occurring feature that looks back, sort of like

> my "Jewels from the Past" in these reports.

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>>From the N&WHS Archives work session last week, I was given two files

> found by our good friend Harry Bundy, who is organizing our "receiving

> warehouse area". The first is a 1934 file about the consideration of

> Unification of Facilities by VGN. Considered was the combining of

> Passenger and Freight Stations of the N&W and VGN in Roanoke. After much

> study, the report concluded: "The Virginian Railway has two inbound and

> two outbound passenger trains per day; the four trains either

> originating or terminating in Roanoke. All of these trains would have an

> increased movement of approximately two miles in reaching the N&W

> Passenger Station, and the expense of this additional train haul would

> exceed the small saving to be secured under consolidation". The Freight

> Station consolidation study yielded "no saving in expense would result

> therefrom". The second file passed around was about "switching of

> passenger cars($10 fee) by the Tidewater Railway between Norfolk and the

> Jamestown Exposition Grounds in 1907. Tidewater Railway was the only

> "horse in town" to the Jamestown Exposition.

>

>>From The Roanoke Times" 2/13/12 "100 Years Ago Today": "Efforts of

> police have been unavailing in their attempt to clear the mystery

> surrounding the death of John S. Burnett, Special Agent for the

> Virginian Road, who was found last night...as the last breath was

> leaving his body". This prompted the Brethren to recall several VGN

> Special Agent stories. Glen McLain told of a bank robber in Lynchburg

> once trying to carjack a VGN "cinder dick" who arrested him.

>

> I showed the Brethren a Norfolk Southern news release "NS pens deal with

> Dynamic fuels and Mansfield Oil". NS is the first fleet user in US to

> deploy clean renewable diesel fuel. NS has been using a 100% Dynamic

> Fuels renewable diesel at Meridian, MS rail yard this year.

>

> The Jewel from the Past is from 11/24/05: "'Cornbread' Victory told of

> flagging trains in South Yard for the incoming VGN #4 Passenger Train

> that got into Roanoke about 4:30 PM each day. He said coal trains would

> cut off their cabooses and let them roll by gravity down the Main Line

> to the cab track (just north of the Main Line). Near 4:30 PM, if a cab

> was moving toward the cab track, lighted fusees were placed by the Main

> Line, so #4 would know that a cab was ahead. He said on occasion, #4's

> engine would 'toot-toot' and give the cab a little push. He would run

> ahead and quickly throw the switch to the cab track back to the Main, so

> #4 could continue on to the Station. Now that's real railroadin'".

>

> Then there's this: A blond decided to go ice fishing. She cut a hole in

> the ice and dropped in a line. Shortly, a strong voice said: "There's no

> fish under this ice". She reluctantly moved and cut another hole in the

> ice, and got the same voice again: "There's no fish under this ice".

> Frustrated, she looked up and answered the voice, "Are you God?" "No,

> I'm the manager of this skating rink!"

>

> Time to pull the pin on this one!

>

> Departing Now from V248,

>

> Skip Salmon

>

> CDVII

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> Does anyone know what the valve located on the side of the cylinders on 

> some

> locomotives is for?  The valve handle is recessed in the side of the

> cylinder between the valve chest and cylinder.  None of my Locomotive

> Cyclopedias show any info.

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