Train Speeds

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Sent: Mon, Aug 2, 2010 9:07 am
Subject: Train Speeds


I heard today on a radio news program that 90mph trains have preliminary 
pproval for some time in the future in Virginia!  In the heyday of N&W 
team operations, what were the average speeds of the Norfolk-Cincinnati 
rains and those on the Shenandoah Division. Where and what were the top 
peeds?
###
ernie Hylton
he Shenandoah Division wasn't exactly "all you can git" territory,
but last night I looked at the elapsed times for No. 1 Hagerstown to
Roanoke (238 miles).  In 1955, the elapsed transit time was 6 hrs.
50 minutes (avg. of 30.3 MPH).IN 1923, the elapsed time for the same
train was 6 hrs. 55 mins (avg. 30 MPH).  So over a span of 32 years,
N&W had improved the schedule by five minutes.        Harry Bundy  


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