Class M number 484

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Class M number 484 was sold as scrap at Roanoke on 5-30-1950.

Bud Jeffries


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>The article says the crown sheet failed, but didn't specifically 

>describe a complete boiler launch scenario.  I'm assuming 484 would 

>have been an M class 4-8-0 with a deckless cab?  If the crown sheet 

>blew but the boiler held, it's possible that the explosion blasted 

>steam out through the fire door and killed the fireman standing 

>behind the backhead, and injured the brakeman (presumably standing 

>somewhere on the tender deck), but the engineer would have been 

>relatively safe in his position at the side of the boiler.  Does 

>anyone know the subsequent history of no. 484?  She would have only 

>been 3 or 4 years old at the time, was she repaired and put back into service?

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>Richard Jenkins

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>>Bluefield Daily Telegraph

>>May 24, 1910

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>>ENGINE BLOWS UP, KILLING FIREMAN CARVER

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>>Engine No. 484 blew up this morning...

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>>[It is difficult to understand how the engineer escaped

>>injury in a boiler explosion...

>>

>>Gordon Hamilton

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