VGN #800

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Ed,

     I also had the privilege of talking to Clyde just a week before his passing about that night before 800 blew up.  I recall him showing me how he, upon hearing about the "incident" as he called it, started searching all of the trash and copies of train orders in JK to see if "I missed something" as he put it.   Prince of a guy!

Skip Salmon

> On April 1, 2019 at 11:27 PM NW Mailing List via NW-Mailing-List <nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org> wrote:
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>     Ed,
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>     I had the privilege of befriending Mr. Weatherly, apparently about a decade after you were there. After classes at the community college I would slip down to JK and visit with Mr. Weatherly. I spent many hours hanging on the bottom half of the dutch-door at the entrance to the office.
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>     I, too, heard the story of the 800, and many, many more. It was a great place to learn railroading from some of the best.
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>     Jeff Sanders
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>     On Monday, April 1, 2019, 7:12:15 PM EDT, NW Mailing List <nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org> wrote:
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>     My good friend the late Clyde Weatherly was the operator at JK Tower that morning and handed up the orders to the 800.  Weatherly said that the brakeman caught the orders because Dudding was already asleep braced against the cab window frame.  Weatherly also said that Dudding was known for enjoying the big city of Roanoke and getting his rest on his way home to Victoria.  This was the fireman’s first trip east; he fired the 800 west from Victoria and did not want to work it back but there was no one else in town.  After Weatherly got off work, he went to Stewartsville to the scene and it was not pretty.  I remember his description of Dudding’s remains which was graphic and not suitable for a family chat room.
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>     - Ed King
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>     I haven't seen a post on this subject yet today. I bring it to your attention because I believe it worthy to remember the souls lost on this day 78 years ago on our Virginian Railway.
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>     At approximately 5:20 am on April 1, 1941 Engineer John (Goldie) Dudding, Fireman Meade Brown and Head Brakeman Hollie Harrison lost their lives when the mammoth 800, Class AE 2-10-10-2 blew up between Stewartsville and Goodview, VA.
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>     The story has been recalled many times, so I will not go into details now. For more details you may go to H. Reid's VIRGINIAN RAILWAY, Kalmbach Publishing, 1961, pages 92-95.
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>     Jeff Sanders
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