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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Tunga>Bluefield Daily Telegraph<BR>March 4,
1910</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV align=center><FONT size=4>FIREMAN CARTER SERIOUSLY BURNED</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV align=center><STRONG>Engineer Rinard Also Injured by Explosion on Engine on
Williamson Yard</STRONG></DIV>
<DIV align=left> The well known Shay engine which was a source
of so much trouble between this city and Flat Fop, where it was used, has again
sprung into the limelight at Williamson, where it has been used of late to push
cars over the hump leading to the scales. In some way the saddle exploded
yesterday morning about 2 o'clock and as a result Engineer W. J. Rinard and
Fireman O. H. Carter were injured. The men were taken to the Railroad Y.
M. C. A. at Williamson where they were treated in the temporary hospital.
Mr. Rinard was not seriously burned and was joined last night by his wife.
The fireman was brought to Bluefield last night on No. 16 and taken to a local
hospital for treatment. His burns are considered serious. The
engine, which is known as No. 56, was used at one time between this city and
Flat Top for pushing coal trains, but as it was not able to make more than
twelve miles per hour, it continually got in the way of other traffic and in
that way became too expensive to operate. It was a frequent visitor to the
shops and on account of its complicated mechanism, the sight of it wending its
way in the shops was disliked by every man on the line.</DIV>
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<DIV align=left>[<EM>The following info on this unique N&W locomotive comes
from Prince's book on the N&W and Koch's book on Shay locomotives: It
was built 8-21-1907 as N&W No. 1, but later renumbered N&W No. 56.
This 150-ton, 4-truck Shay was among the largest Shays ever built. Sold by
N&W in 1915 to Birmingham Rail & Locomotive Co. (dealer), Birmingham,
AL; Sold 4-5-1917 to Phelps-Dodge Corp., for use on El Paso & Southwestern
Ry. as No. 99; Sold 1919 to O. W. Brown Loco. & Supply (dealer), Seattle,
WA; Sold 12-1919 to United Commercial Co. (dealer), San Francisco, CA; Sold
2-1920 to Red River Lumber Co., Westwood, CA as No. 99; Scrapped 1934.
This history has to qualify it as being one of the most traveled and/or having
the most owners of any N&W steam locomotive.</EM></DIV>
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<DIV align=left><EM>I can understand how the Shay would have caused congestion
as a Flat Top to Bluefield pusher. The problem was probably not so much
its 12 mph limit when pushing coal trains, but its slow speed returning
downgrade from Bluefield to Flat Top.</EM>]</DIV>
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<DIV align=left><FONT size=6 face=Script>Gordon
Hamilton</FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>