Just for fun

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Mon May 25 16:33:37 EDT 2015


Larry

Thanks for the geo location data point.
Eric
Gainesville, Va

On 2015-05-22 16:54, NW Mailing List wrote:
> Eric
> 
> Google Maps    37.743738, -82.332218  should put you right on it.
> 
> Larry Evans
> 
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
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> 
> Can you provide the exact coordinates for viewing the area via Google
> Maps, etc...?
> thanks
> Eric Raitch
> Gainesville, Va
> 
> On 2015-05-21 20:36, NW Mailing List wrote:
>> Lois
>> 
>>      You are correct it is the site where the 1204s boiler landed
>> after the explosion. I worked Monday on
>> 
>> repairing a gas line just to the right of the picture . No sign that
>> it ever happened . The signal base that
>> 
>> they ran by is still there and the telephone pole in front of the
>> boiler you can find the butt of it sawed off level
>> 
>> in the grass
>> 
>> Larry Evans
>> 
>> Kenova, WV
>> 
>> FROM: NW-Mailing-List [mailto:nw-mailing-list-bounces at nwhs.org] ON
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>> SENT: Thursday, May 21, 2015 10:22 AM
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>> SUBJECT: RE: Just for fun
>> 
>> My guess is the location of where the boiler landed after the
>> explosion of class A 1204 at Nolan, WV on July 7,1942.
>> 
>> For comparison, I have attached a photo of the famed Cedar Curve, the
>> site where 611 wrecked in 1956.
>> 
>> Lois J.Ponton
>> 
>> N&W historian
>> 
>> Moderator:
>>  http://nwhs.org/mailinglist/2015/20150521.20140729_143154.jpg [1]
>> 
>> Links:
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>> [1] http://nwhs.org/mailinglist/2015/20150521.20140729_143154.jpg
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