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A drawing design of the N&W class J locomotive. After the outbreak of World War II, the Norfolk and Western Railway's (N&W) mechanical engineering team developed a new locomotive—the streamlined class J 4-8-4 Northern—to handle rising mainline passenger traffic over the Blue Ridge Mountains, especially on steep grades in Virginia and West Virginia.
Gerald M. Best (1895–1985) was a noted railroad historian, writer, photographer, and one of the top sound engineers in the motion picture industry. [1]After receiving an electrical engineering degree from Cornell, Best served in the Army Signal Corps, worked for AT&T, and then went to work for Warner Brothers in 1928, where his knowledge of sound technology was very useful as the age of ...
Cheap furniture is like a fast-fashion epidemic for homes, piling up in landfills and littering the planet with junk nobody wants after two years. Many of these pieces are made of particle board ...
The locomotive, first six cars, and last two cars stayed on the rails undamaged. [ 4 ] [ 1 ] 177 passengers were injured while 18 of the most seriously injured need to be airlifted to hospitals in Norfolk for treatment.
After replacing the kinked rail, a bulldozer shoved the track back into place, and the westbound track reopened on January 24 at 11:25 a.m. [7] [9] The eastbound track, where the train derailed, was severely damaged and got pushed down the embankment for 340 ft (103.63 m), from about 55 ft (16.76 m) east of the point of the accident. [9]
The locomotive was maintained by Iron Horse Enterprises, the most recent servicing of the locomotive being in 2006. In 2010, discussions began between Rowland and Jim Justice, owner of the Greenbrier Resort in White Sulfur Springs, West Virginia, and current governor of West Virginia. The resort owner had been interested in running steam ...
On 1 September 1947, locomotive 6001 was involved in the Dugald rail accident. It collided with another CN 4-8-2 numbered 6046. No. 6001 was later rebuilt by CN. On 21 November 1950, locomotive 6004 was severely damaged a head-on collision with S-2-a 2-8-2 No. 3538 at Canoe River, British Columbia. It was scrapped in June 1951 (as was the 3538).
The Mount Savage Locomotive Works was a railroad workshop established at Mount Savage, Maryland, US. The Cumberland and Pennsylvania Railroad locomotive shops were established in Mt. Savage in 1866, under the direction of James Millholland. The original locomotive shop was constructed of stone and was 90 feet x 250 feet in size with a 33-foot ...