Wreck at Ellett on Virginian

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You can read the ICC accident report for this 1927 head-on collision at  
Ingleside here:
 
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Gordon:
I used the DOT library to check out the March 13, 1941 investigation which  
occurred at
Kumis. Maybe Kumis had been misrepresented as Ellett.  It  hadn't.  Later I 
found they're
12 miles apart.
 
No steam engines were involved, but the investigation revealed several  
historical facts:
1- This was the last VGN investigation where the ICC identified crew  
members by name.
2- Even before radio, VGN had concocted a system to communicate  signals 
between units.
3- VGN began installing spring switches in 1931 and by 1941 had 16 spring  
switches in service.
4- At the west end of Kumis was a #10 turnout, but VGN later upgraded  
turnouts to #15's.
5- Originally the distant signals for spring switches were semaphores, but  
were later changed to
     searchlights.                                                     Harry
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