NW-Mailing-List Digest, Vol 183, Issue 30

Sat Feb 8 11:29:14 EST 2020

AS a Kid I rode behind the Pacifics many times but going WEST to  Mullens to
visit my Grandfather Cawley .They never reached anywhere near even 60 (I
don't think) But That was WEST of Roanoke!!! Wonder what they could do EAST
to Victoria/Norfolk ? Ken Tanner (missing Roanoke) 

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Today's Topics:

   1. Fw: Pacific 578 recordings & The N&WHS Preservation Mission
      (NW Mailing List)
   2. Virginian PA locomotive speed (NW Mailing List)
   3. Re: Virginian PA locomotive speed (NW Mailing List)
   4. RE: Virginian PA locomotive speed (NW Mailing List)

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Message: 1
Date: Fri, 7 Feb 2020 02:52:00 +0000
From: NW Mailing List <nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org>
Subject: Fw: Pacific 578 recordings & The N&WHS Preservation Mission
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Hopefully this recording project will become available through the N&WHS
Commissary sooner than later. I read an interesting comment that was said
why the couple that made these recordings didn?t make them commercially
available years ago. The couple did not want to compete with the O. Winston
Link N&W recordings from that time period! I would like those of you that
are holding onto photos, recordings or even newspaper articles on historic
railroads to make them available for sale and/or distribution while those
few folks that grew up during the Age of Steam are still alive to enjoy
them. I think you will find that this new information will generate interest
by younger people. You will still be around to answer questions for them and
hopefully make them want to pass on their interest in trains and why they
are so important in the building of America! Don?t let your historical
railroad items end up in a landfill!
You will be so happy that you did save them! Spread the word about the N&WHS
and it?s important mission of railroad preservation for future generations!
All aboard!
Norris

Norris Deyerle
Blue Ridge Chapter, National Railway Historical Society Chairman of
Virginia's Rail Heritage Region Partners
Info: www.blueridgenrhs.org
744 Chinook Place
Lynchburg, Virginia 24502-4908
Cell: 434-851-0151
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Subject: Re: Pacific 578 recordings

Jim,

I also would be interested in this cd.

Steven Ashley

On Sunday, February 2, 2020, NW Mailing List
<nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org<mailto:nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org>> wrote:
As I mentioned before, I have Bill Bauer?s 1/4 inch tape recordings and
recently released his chase of Y6 2136 on a mine run in 1958. Bill also rode
trains 5 & 6 and recorded much of those runs from the baggage car at the
head of the train. Pacific 578?s Hancock whistle is very prominent in those
recordings and Bill captured some great sound as the train got up to speed
out of Bluefield, Va before working it?s way toward Norton over grades,
trestles, and through tunnels. He kept the recorder going at some of the
station stops where you hear talk from the crew and ground personnel and
related activity. If there is sufficient interest, I?ll produce a CD from
those trips.

-Jim Herron
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Date: Fri, 7 Feb 2020 12:13:47 -0500
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Subject: Virginian PA locomotive speed
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Hello,

I wondered if anyone can tell me how fast the Virginian PA passenger
locomotives could or did run?  I?m wondering about their designed top speed
and normal schedule running speed. I?m sure it?s slower than the N&W J?s but
would they have been comparable to older N&W passenger engines? 

Phil Miller

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Date: Fri, 7 Feb 2020 14:50:53 -0500
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Subject: Re: Virginian PA locomotive speed
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With the 69? drivers and the cylinder dimensoins, the PA?s could be expected
to cruise at 85 MPH range.  The N&W 100-series engines could be expected to
run in the same range.

The Js can?t be considered in comparison with ANY other steam locomotive.
They were so well designed including their counterbalancing that they could
operate comfortably at driver RPMs in excess of 500 and could reach speeds
in excess of that.  

Remember that if a locomotive  operating a a speed equalling their driving
wheel diameter, those wheels will be turning up 336 RPM.  There were many
locomotives that could operate in the 400 RPM range.  There were others not
comfortable at 336 (the Atlantic Coast Line?s 1800-series Northerns, for
example).

- Ed King
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Subject: Virginian PA locomotive speed

Hello,

I wondered if anyone can tell me how fast the Virginian PA passenger
locomotives could or did run?  I?m wondering about their designed top speed
and normal schedule running speed. I?m sure it?s slower than the N&W J?s but
would they have been comparable to older N&W passenger engines? 

Phil Miller

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Date: Fri, 7 Feb 2020 17:02:56 -0500
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Thanks for the info. Wow. I didn?t think they could go that fast. 

-Phil Miller

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Subject: Re: Virginian PA locomotive speed

With the 69? drivers and the cylinder dimensoins, the PA?s could be expected
to cruise at 85 MPH range.  The N&W 100-series engines could be expected to
run in the same range.

The Js can?t be considered in comparison with ANY other steam locomotive.
They were so well designed including their counterbalancing that they could
operate comfortably at driver RPMs in excess of 500 and could reach speeds
in excess of that.  

Remember that if a locomotive  operating a a speed equalling their driving
wheel diameter, those wheels will be turning up 336 RPM.  There were many
locomotives that could operate in the 400 RPM range.  There were others not
comfortable at 336 (the Atlantic Coast Line?s 1800-series Northerns, for
example).

- Ed King

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Sent: Friday, February 07, 2020 12:13 PM

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Cc: NW Mailing List 

Subject: Virginian PA locomotive speed

Hello,

I wondered if anyone can tell me how fast the Virginian PA passenger
locomotives could or did run?  I?m wondering about their designed top speed
and normal schedule running speed. I?m sure it?s slower than the N&W J?s but
would they have been comparable to older N&W passenger engines? 

Phil Miller

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