Question about Virginian Class AE operations following Clarks Gap electrification

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The late Clyde Weatherly was working at JK Tower that morning and handed up 800’s orders, caught by the head brakeman.  Clyde told me that the engineer had his head down as if already asleep.  The fireman was a brand new man who fired it on the westbound trip and tried to lay off the eastbound; he didn’t think he could handle it, but there was nobody to relieve him.

EdKing

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Following is from the ICC Report regardingthe April 1, 1941 boiler explosion of AEEng 800 at Stewartsville.  Keep in mind thatthe information is only one example. "The train consisted of 150 cars of coal andcaboose, the weight of the train was 13,479 tons.That weight is an estimate.  In the era beforeweigh-in-motion scales, loads were weighed justbefore dumping. Clerks used an arbitrary tareweight (24 tons usually. but 22 tons on theSouthern) and computed the loaded weight basedon the number of 50 ton cars and the numberof "battleship" gons to calculate the estimatedtonnage.Extra 800 East departed Roanoke at 4:10 a.m.the AE exploded at about 5:20 a.m. --  12.7miles in 1 hour 10 minutes. Typical ?                          Harry Bundy

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