Ironton OH and 611 crossing grade accident pics

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On 8/3/2024 6:35 PM, NW Mailing List via NW-Mailing-List wrote:

> Jimmy
> Thanks for your response.
> I was wondering how fast this incident was handled. Was not sure about timing & issues with the crews involved.  Where can I find the story?
> Thank you
> Herb Edwards
Herb,
     As Tim wrote, the story is in the book "Norfolk and Western 
Six-Eleven 3 Times A Lady". I think more detailed additional information 
was in a previous unsigned post (possibly from Tim), which reads as follows:

/"Just a swap of engines, then the regular crew forwarded it on to 
Williamson.  Only about an hour delay; besides crews could work 16 hours 
under the federal law back then.  PTA engine crew was engineer Pat 
Duncan and Firemen John Moreford. Kenova/Ironton seniority yard crew was 
Engineer Doug Booth and Brakeman Walker Johnson (the latter quite the 
character, I have six hours of tapes on him).  The whole swap was within 
the interlocking limits of KX Tower, based at the east end of the upper 
level platform of Kenova Union Station and only about two/three miles 
from the point of accident.  First westward crossover was at North 
Kenova, over in Ohio; KX CTC machine controlled from Union, Ohio, west 
of Ironton, to Prichard, WV (where the big coaling station was). Just a 
routine move really, as there were four Ironton shifters a day out of 
Kenova back then and five Kenova Yard crews (two each on day and 
afternoon, one on midnight) around the clock. /
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/The Kenova yardmaster (N&W's were officials, not contract employees 
like those on the C&O) responded quickly, orchestrating the whole move. 
There was always an assistant trainmaster stationed at Kenova, but he 
must have been elsewhere that day./
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/Don't have any specific info about the second engine swap at 
Williamson, but a K2a was usually kept there, even more when they had 
the coalfield locals. The Portsmouth-based Scioto Division engine crew 
would have come off there anyway (the passenger trainmen, inbound from 
Cincinnati), and a Pocahontas Division engine crew would have taken the 
train on to Bluefield and the relieving conductor and two brakemen on to 
Roanoke."/
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/Jimmy Lisle
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