1920 Rural Retreat Wreck Photos

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Thanks a lot:  Answers three questions for me!  (Yes, it was the 
Cannonball; yes, it ran from Richmond; and why only a few locos were 
assigned to it.)

Pete Groom
On Nov 16, 2004, at 7:05 AM, nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org wrote:

> 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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>> 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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