"Bottling the Air"

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If I remember the emails from a year or so ago.  The picture is the
wreck of cars that occurred at the end of the 1978 strike.   The derail
did in fact do its job.
 
George Weber

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Although a run-away train east out of Bluefield might reach the Jug Neck
and derail as described by Harry Bundy, a run-away cut of cars in
Bluefield East Yard would more likely be derailed by the device of the
same name at the east end of the departure tracks as shown in the
attached photo.  I don't know the date of this mishap, but a copyright
on the back of the photo is 2000.
 
I can imagine that the wreckmaster shook his head when he first viewed
this mishap.
 
Incidentally, for traction fans, the Tri-City Traction Co.
Princeton-Bluefield interurban line ran alongside the county road in the
upper center of the photo.  The line was on the north (right-hand side
or inside-of -the-curve side) of the road, but the roadbed is obscured
by vegatation growth since abandonment April 7, 1947.
 
Gordon Hamilton
 
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	Thanks, Bruce.  Apparently the drag I rode back to Roanoke
	had not been put on yard air and pre-tested.  There was an
	interesting event that occurred at East Yard about 1972.  If
	you remember, there's a 12 degree reverse curve five or so
	miles east of Bluefield -- Jug Neck Curve.  If there was a
	run-away from Bluefield, supervision and wreck forces
	immediately went to Jug Neck to make an appraisal.  There
	was a coal train that got away, the head-end crew bailed
	off and the forces headed to Jug Neck to pick up the pieces.
	There, they found the derailed coal cars, but no engines.  The
	engines negotiated the curve and, engineer-less, continued
	east.  Despite the loss of air, the compressors on the engines
	kept the brakes off.  The run-away collided with a local 
	switching the APCO plant at Glen Lynn.  Harry Bundy

	
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