N&W in 1912--Runaway engine

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Jim,

Thanks for the correction.  I knew the G1's had been renumbered, but I failed to check the time period for that.  But, because the Class F 2-8-0 likewise would not have been normally used in passenger service, I think it stands that the reporter mistakenly took the passenger train number as being the engine number.

Gordon
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  Gordon

  The No. 6 locomotive was most likely a class F 2-8-0 built by Baldwin July 1886 and retired July 1916.  The Baldwin G1 was numbered 200 during this time period.

  Jim Blackstock


  At 09:01 PM 12/24/2011, you wrote:

    Bluefield Daily Telegraph
    March 6, 1912
     

    ENGINE RAN WILD
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    Considerable Excitement Occasioned at Norton Monday Afternoon

        Considerable excitement was caused at Norton Monday afternoon when a big freight engine broke loose, seemingly of its own accord, and ran at a rapid rate for ten hundred yards or more crashing into passenger engine No. 6, which was being switched to pull out a train to Bluefield.  No one knows how the engine got started but it is believed that some boy opened the throttle, and finding that he was in trouble jumped off and let the engine go.  The tender of the passenger engine was almost completely demolished.  Both the tender and the engine were thrown from the track. The Virginia and Kentucky train was just leaving for Wise, Va., with fifteen or twenty passengers, and had it not been for the passenger engine between it and the big jack, more serious consequences might have resulted.  The engineer of the passenger train jumped off when he saw what was happening.  No one was injured.

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    [Engine No.6 was a Class G1 2-8-0 freight locomotive (Baldwin 1897)and would not normally have been used in passenger service.  But, the afternoon passenger train out of Norton to Bluefield was No. 6, scheduled out at 2:05 p.m. and a Virginia and Kentucky train was scheduled out at 1:46 p.m., both according to the January 1910 Official Guide, so it is likely that the runaway occurred about 1:46 p.m. when the V&K train would have been leaving and the N&W passenger engine would have been moving toward its train.  The reporter likely confused train No. 6 for engine No. 6.]
     
    Gordon Hamilton
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