The NW Class J 611

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Jerry

You can read a detailed report in Chapter 9 of my book, Norfolk and 
Western Class J, pages 97-101. However, basically, human error is 
probably to blame, it was suspected that the engineer may have had a 
heart attack as no effort was made to slow the train for the speed 
restricted curve at Cedar, West Virginia. That seems to have been ruled 
out, but medical science may have found different results today. My 
feeling is that the engineer, a 30 year veteran, was used to running 
fast, lost track of exactly where he was, got distracted and missed the 
speed board, and was too far into the curve for a brake application.

Ken Miller

On Aug 7, 2005, at 11:57 PM, nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org wrote:


> Hi gang,

>  

> Probably an old question to some of the veteran members here, but, 

> does anyone have any official information regarding NW 611's 

> derailment back in the 1950's? I understood it to be human error, can 

> anyone confirm this?

>  

> Jerry Butler

>  

>   

>

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