1920 Rural Retreat Wreck Photos

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Pete,

The Cannonball's operated over the ACL between Petersburg and Richmond.
Because that line of the ACL was equipped with a type of  automatic train
stop not installed anywhere on the N & W, any N & W locomotive operating
over that line had to be specially equipped with the ACL automatic train
stop mechanism.  To minimize costs, only a limited number of N & W
locomotives were so equipped in order to provide the Cannonball service.

Published photographs in Prince's and Reid/Lewis' books show the 120 and the
122 in the vicinity of Richmond with the Cannonball, so these two
locomotives  must have been equipped with automatic train stop.  There may
have been another one or two also.

Maybe others can confirm this or give more details.

Gordon Hamilton
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Subject: Re: 1920 Rural Retreat Wreck Photos


> Thanks - I should have remembered that none of the K-1s were
> streamlined - too lazy to look it up in the books.
>
> (TAN  However, wasn't there a K2 or K2a that was known for handling the
> Cannonball every day for some years?  (The 120?)  It was kind of a demo
> that steam could have high availability like the diesels, IIRC.
>
> pete groom
> On Nov 14, 2004, at 3:37 PM, nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org wrote:
>
> > Both were rebuilt to service. 558 was retired and scrapped in June of
> > 1952. The 102 was a K1, (100-115) none of the Class K1 were
> > streamlined, only K2 (116-1250 and K2a (126-137) were streamlined. The
> > 102 was retired and scrapped in October 1957.
> >
> > Ken Miller
> > . . .
>
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