July 5, Sixty-Seven years Ago- the cause!

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I knew you would come through Ed!
Thanks,
Charlie

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>Charlie - without lubrication, the boiler bearing slide wouldn't slide.  It 

>had worked after a fashion from Roanoke to Dry Branch but evidently siezed 

>up at that point.  After it made the little left curve at the end of Dry 

>Branch Middle track, it wouldn't let the boiler come back to center; the 

>front engine stayed skewed to the left.  It's still skewed to the left in 

>the photo.  It stayed skewed to the left as the engine tried to make the 

>right hand curve after the short straight.

>

>Again, get into the DOT special collections website and get report 2369.

>

>The engine was on its first trip after being taken out of storage.  It would 

>have been difficult to visibly detect the lack of lubrication, and nobody 

>did detect it.

>

>I had heard that an A derailed in a yard (Williamson or Portsmouth) out on 

>the west end due to the same thing, but I've never seen anything to confirm 

>it.

>

>EdKing

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>> Abramus:

>> Growing up in Radford, I had heard about this wreck from my dad for years 

>> and this is the first photo I've ever seen of it. Thanks! He had family 

>> that worked MOW along 'the river' through Belspring.

>> I had asked Ed King if he knew anything about it and he had a vague 

>> remembrance of the incident. Now the question, to which I also posed to 

>> Dr. Kiing, was the front engine uncooperative or did it sieze (bind) or 

>> actually weld due to the build up of heat?

>> Charlie Long

>>

>>

>> -----Original Message-----

>>>From: nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org

>>>Sent: Jul 4, 2006 8:54 PM

>>>To:   N&W Mailing List <nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org>

>>>Subject: July 5, Sixty-Seven years Ago

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>>>It was sixty-seven years ago, July 5, 1939, that Engine 2030 turned over 

>>>at Big Falls Cut on the Radford Division, due to a dry boiler slide.

>>>

>>>Attached is a photo.

>>>

>>>Keep your boiler slides well greased, boys !

>>>

>>>-- abram burnett

>>

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