N&W in 1910--Mallets almost OT

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We had two channels, three on a good day if you put foil on the antenna.  
These days we have 200 channels and still nothing to watch!
 
Richard D. Shell
Troutville, VA
 
 
In a message dated 4/18/2010 9:37:23 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,  
nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org writes:

Neither were the TVs you watched it on . .  .
 
EdKing
 



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The Weather Channel wasn't very dependable in those  days.
 
Gordon
 

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Gordon,  
This answers a question I've had for several years. At an estate sale  
several years ago, BEFORE I became a serious collector of Virginian Railway  
artifacts, I remember seeing a large barometer marked VGN RWY and wondered  at 
that time why they needed one....now the "rest of the story"! I should  have 
bought it.....  
Skip Salmon
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Bluefield Daily Telegraph
October 29,  1910 

TEST OUT MALLETS AS MOUNTAIN CARRIERS  
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Local Railroad Men Wondering What Will be Effect  of Cold Weather On Big 
Engines 
    The local railroad men are wondering what  will be the effect of the 
cold weather on the new large Mallet engines which  are in use on this 
division.  A cold spell is the time when the road  foreman of engines has his 
troubles but they are even less than those of the  man at the throttle who has to 
watch every little leak and ???* of his  engine for fear the frost will get 
in its work.  Train dispatchers have  to keep their eyes continually on the 
thermometer and barometer to see how  trains should be loaded.  The unusual 
altitude of this city, compared  with the 600 feet above the sea level of 
Williamson keeps those men  continually on the jump and they have to always 
be on the lookout for cold  snaps and their dire results. 
    A railroad man said yesterday that  November is one of the hardest 
months in the year on engines.  He holds  that the acid from the leaves which 
fall into the water have a peculiar  action on the mud rings in the boilers 
and even attack the flues with the  result that engines give a great deal of 
trouble.  Then again the  changeable weather, frost one day and balmy the 
next, keeps the engineers on  the jump all the time. 
    The Mallet engines are slow moving  monsters, and on this account the 
weather test is one which will be of  interest not only to the local railroad 
men but to those who are connected  with other roads.  This winter, which 
prophets predict will be severe,  will test out the Mallets as mountain 
carriers. 
[*Word indistinct on microfilm.] 
------ 
Gordon Hamilton  

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Skip Salmon

 
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