Virginian PA Speed

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The AGs and BAs were bought when an ex-C&O man came over to be president. 
He bought engines that the C&O liked.  He evidently had no concept of the 
horsepower curve or top speeds.  They hadn't seemed to be important on the 
C&O either.  VGN would have been more economically served by an engine like 
N&W's Y-6, (so would the Clinchfield) but nobody believed what these engines 
were doing on N&W.

- Ed King

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Ken,

VGN was a 35 MPH railroad and it had BAs and AGs that couldn't be used to
their full capacity.  Interesting.

Bud Jeffries

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Thanks very much! That's very helpful.
-Phil Miller

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Just found this while moving my timetable collection this afternoon.

N&W Norfolk Division Timetable No. 16, effective 12:01 am, Tuesday, December
1, 1959

Page N-26
Maximum Permissible Speed Table listed
Portlock to South Roanoke
Engines Class DE-S and DE-RS, Passenger Trains; 55 mph, Time and Local
Freight Trains, 45 mph; Other Trains, 35mph Engines Class DE-38, Passenger
Trains, 55 mph; Time and Local Freight Trains 45 mph;  Other Trains, 35mph
Engines Class PA and BA, Passenger Trains, 55 mph; Time and Local Freight
Trains, 45 mph; Other Trains, 35mph

I thought that was pretty interesting, I only listed the top three lines,
but that would have to be the only place that Virginian steam was listed in
an N&W employee timetable.

Hard to imagine that stuff that had been out of service for over three and a
half years would even have been listed.

Best
Ken Miller
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