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Walt:
N&W would occasionally swap power with foreign
roads when there was a power shortage.  The
number-counters in SOC (System Operations Center)
would keep track of foreign line units on N&W and
compensation was based on horsepower hours.  
Maybe WM owed N&W horsepower hours or maybe
N&W was short on power.

September of 1970 was not a good month for N&W.
Most every day there were derailments and collisions.
The east end of the passing siding at Belspring had
a fail-safe feature -- if the turnout had not been reversed
to enter the main track, the straight track movement was into
the Radford Army Ammunition Depot.  No. 78 passed
the stop signal, entered the ammunition depot and
derailed.  Riding 6 cars back was a car of ammunition
routed Petersburg-SCL.   It didn't explode. So there's
one SCL got.
                                                         Harry Bundy 
                                                  

   

 
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