3 pics at switchback

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>From other postings, it appears that unit continued that display all the
way into Bluefield.  It probably had suffered a blown turbocharger.

Dave Phelps

On Mon, Feb 5, 2018 at 3:33 PM, NW Mailing List <nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org>
wrote:

> Is this just a possible soot fire in the exhaust ducts or is the
> locomotive in serious trouble?
>
>
> Rick Huddle
>
> Delaware, OH
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> A friend forwarded this.
>
> Alan Cox
>
>
>
> On Today 1-30-2018 Around 5pm an east bound Norfolk Southern train was
> looking
> just like a steam engine.. The second unit in the consist was shooting up
> super-high
> flames of fire and hugh-gulps of gigantic smoke while east bound thru
> Upland,Elkhorn,
> Switchback & Maybeury,West Virginia In McDowell County, By the time it
> arrived in
> Bluefield,WV Mercer County around 6pm there were no longer any flames of
> fire or smoke..
> As a veteran Railroad Photographer It was both dramatic and scary at the
> same time.
> All pictures by Timothy L.Hairston 60 missionary Church Road Upland,WV
> 24831-9601
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