new, old 1218 video on YouTube

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Sam,

There have been several name changes.  In 1925 American Gas & Electric 
(AG&E) bought Appalachian Power Co. (APCO) and merged it with others in 1926 
to form Appalachian Electric Power Company (AEPCO), but in 1958 AG&E decided 
to rename itself American Electric Power Company (AEPCO) so it had to change 
the name of the local utility back to Appalachian Power Company (APCO). 
Clear?

Gordon Hamilton

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Subject: Re: new, old 1218 video on YouTube



> To be even pickier, Rev Jim, it was most likely an APCO truck belonging to

> Appalachian Power Company, the subsidiary of AEPCO (American Electric 

> Power

> Company) that operates the Glen Lyn power plant.

>

> As a footnote, several years ago AEPCO decided to do away with all the

> regional subsidiary names and the APCO label was removed from everything,

> including the trucks.  Then, two or three years ago they revived the

> Appalachian Power Company name and it's back on the trucks and on the old

> headquarters building on Franklin Road in Roanoke.  I never stopped making

> my checks out to APCO, and they never had any trouble cashing them.

>

> Sam Putney

>

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> Subject: Re: new, old 1218 video on YouTube

>

>

>> Jerry:  It was an AEPCO truck. That's who ran the power plant at Glen 

>> Lyn.

>> Glad to learn that you guys were all that close to where I was.  Jim

>> Nichols

>>

>>

>>>I was there, too, helping clear the debris from US 460. A VEPCO truck (or

>>>some

>>> such power co.) was there and they had a chain saw.  They cut the tree

>>> branches

>>> and we drug them off of the road.  We were so disappointed at getting

>>> caught

>>> in the slide.  We just knew we had missed the train pulling in to

>>> Bluefield.  But as

>>> it turned out, they had their own slide problems, so we were still able

>>> to get to

>>> Bluefield in time to see it come in.

>>>

>>> Jerry Kay, Portsmouth, VA

>>>

>>> ---- Original message ----

>>>>Date: Fri, 27 Jun 2008 19:38:36 -0400

>>>>From: NW Mailing List <nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org>

>>>>Subject: Re: new, old 1218 video on YouTube

>>>>To: "NW Mailing List" <nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org>

>>>>

>>>>How well I remember too, Jim.  I was driving John Snidow's Ford Bronco.

>>>>And, boy, that high clearance came in real handy that day.  I also

>>>>remember

>>>>helping clear some slide debris from 460 west of Narrows.  And the East

>>>>River was even wilder than the New River that day.  But what great steam

>>>>effects!

>>>>

>>>>Sam Putney

>>>>

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>>>>To: "NW Mailing List" <nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org>

>>>>Sent: Tuesday, June 24, 2008 4:53 PM

>>>>Subject: Re: new, old 1218 video on YouTube

>>>>

>>>>

>>>>> How well I remember!  That was the day they almost aborted the run 

>>>>> just

>>>>> east of Glen Lyn because the heavy rains had caused high water, fallen

>>>>> trees, and messed up signal systems. They considered backing the train

>>>>> to

>>>>> Walton. After sitting still for an hour or so, they decided to go on 

>>>>> to

>>>>> Bluefield (as intended). This gave us time to clear a fallen tree from

>>>>> 460

>>>>> with a borrowed chain saw so we could proceed west. We chased as far 

>>>>> as

>>>>> Oakvale, where the WV state troopers had closed the road up East 

>>>>> River.

>>>>> We

>>>>> had to go to Bluefield through Princeton. Coming back, Ron Flanary got

>>>>> a

>>>>> great scan shot at Ada. (published in Trains several years later)

>>>>> Jim Nichols

>>>>>

>>>>>

>>>>>>

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

>>>>>>>From: NW Mailing List <nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org>

>>>>>>>Sent: Jun 23, 2008 8:31 PM

>>>>>>>To: NW Mailing List <nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org>

>>>>>>>Subject: new, old 1218 video on YouTube

>>>>>>>

>>>>>>>Yesterday I posted to YouTube some video of 1218 from 1987. It was

>>>>>>>shot on VHS and doesn't measure up to currently available consumer

>>>>>>>video, but hey, it's video over 20 years old.

>>>>>>>

>>>>>>>I especially like the segment at about 2:30 where 1218 tries to

>>>>>>>restart on wet rail on

>>>>>>>Christiansburg Mountain. Great sound. And it looks to me like O.

>>>>>>>Winston Link makes a cameo appearance.

>>>>>>>

>>>>>>>Enjoy.

>>>>>>>

>>>>>>>< http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=so7-Fu2psjc >

>>>>>>>

>>>>>>>Ross Hunter

>>>>>>>Orange, VA

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