Class J's at Hagerstown

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J-class could and lead go but only with approval of Roadforman. There is 
evidence that a J made at least one round trip Roanoke-Sshenandoah. I 
can't remember the details though.

Nathan Simmons
trainman51 at gmail.com
http://www.t-51.org
KI4MSK

On 1/4/2014 22:52, NW Mailing List wrote:

> I think I read on this list that a J was run as a test on the 

> Shenandoah Valley line once or twice but was not used otherwise. That 

> said, their near look-alike twins, the streamlined "K's" could and 

> regularly did as did a few non-streamlined K class. The biggest 

> pre-requisite was having the proper cab controls for the Valley line 

> was equipped with those types of controls and only those engines could 

> go, or at least, only in the lead. And the J's did not have the 

> appropriate controls.

>

> I think Mason's SV book covers those details.

>

> Bob Cohen

>

>

>

> Mr. Claude Dixon, retired Conrail Road Foreman of Engines at 

> Washington, DC, in a private email proposed the following interesting 

> answer to my question:

>

> ========

> I can only suggest that the K Class 4-8-2s were usually used on the 

> Roanoke-Hagerstown trains but at times a Class J has been used on 

> these trains. Problem is, What do you do if there's a wreck on the N&W 

> line between Shenandoah Jct. and Hagerstown? You divert to the B&O at 

> Shenandoah Jct. in an eastward direction, and then either shove west 

> or have an engine waiting to pull the N&W passenger train westbound to 

> Martinsburg, WV, where it could then pull eastbound onto the PRR/Cumbo 

> connection and continue on to Hagerstown, MD under Special Instruction 

> 1160-B1 if the train's equipment is applicable. It must have happened. 

> The key might be to check B&O employee TTs of the period to see if 

> anything remotely similar was in effect for the B&O. This might have 

> happened or had the possibility of happening, hence a proactive stance.

> ========

>

> -- abram burnett

>

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