Wreck at Ellett on Virginian

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I can only imagine...  I was 39 when my dad passed and that was 
traumatic enough.

Ed

On 2/21/2012 9:58 PM, NW Mailing List wrote:

> Harry,

> The fireman killed in the 1941 accident at Kumas was named "Steorts."  

> His son was a classmate of mine at Princeton High School, and the son 

> told me recently how crushed he was as a nine-year-old when he learned 

> that his father was killed in the wreck.

> Gordon Hamilton

>

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>     *Sent:* Tuesday, February 21, 2012 2:47 PM

>     *Subject:* Re: Wreck at Ellett on Virginian

>

>         You can read the ICC accident report for this 1927 head-on

>         collision at Ingleside here:

>         http://ntl1.specialcollection.net/scripts/ws.dll?websearch&site=dot_railroads

>         <http://ntl1.specialcollection.net/scripts/ws.dll?websearch&site=dot_railroads>

>

>     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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