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To: NW Mailing List <nw-mailing-list@nwhs.org><br>
Sent: Wed, Sep 30, 2009 1:53 pm<br>
Subject: RE: N&W in 1910--Huge rocks<br>
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<div id=AOLMsgPart_1_99eb291a-1a4f-47f9-b581-1f397bb5e6ec style="FONT-SIZE: 12px; MARGIN: 0px; COLOR: #000; FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, Sans-Serif; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #fff"><PRE style="FONT-SIZE: 9pt"><TT>Would anybody care to speculate how dangerous it was to travel by rail "back in
the day". I've seen so many articles (thank you Gordon and others) now about
train wrecks, malicious vandalism, fights, shootings, etc. Was train travel just
that much more dangerous in general around 1910, or was it the areas served by
the N&W railroad resembled the "Wild West"? Or maybe it was that so many more
people traveled by railroads?
Mike Weeks
Greenville NC
Mike:</TT></PRE><PRE style="FONT-SIZE: 9pt"><TT>Sabotage existed on the N&W beyond 1910. On April 21, 1932, No 4 Eng 133</TT></PRE><PRE style="FONT-SIZE: 9pt"><TT>passed a "clear" signal at the west end of Union (Ohio) middle track, entered</TT></PRE><PRE style="FONT-SIZE: 9pt"><TT>a switch lined to the middle track and turned over. Investigation revealed</TT></PRE><PRE style="FONT-SIZE: 9pt"><TT>that someone had manipulated the bond wires so that the reversed turnout failed</TT></PRE><PRE style="FONT-SIZE: 9pt"><TT>to shunt the signal. C&O's Limeville Bridge crosses over N&W east of </TT></PRE><PRE style="FONT-SIZE: 9pt"><TT>Portsmouth. During World War II, a Nazi sabotage group had targeted that</TT></PRE><PRE style="FONT-SIZE: 9pt"><TT>structure for demolition (along with Horseshoe Curve and others). Whether or</TT></PRE><PRE style="FONT-SIZE: 9pt"><TT>not N&W would have been affected, I can't say. U-boats had put the demolition</TT></PRE><PRE style=
"FONT-SIZE: 9pt"><TT>party ashore near Jupiter Inlet, FL and on Long Island, but they were discovered.</TT></PRE><PRE style="FONT-SIZE: 9pt"><TT> Harry Bundy </TT></PRE><PRE style="FONT-SIZE: 9pt"><TT></TT> </PRE><PRE style="FONT-SIZE: 9pt"><TT> </TT></PRE><PRE style="FONT-SIZE: 9pt"><TT></TT> </PRE></div>