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<div style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'"><FONT face=Arial color=navy size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Guys: I think we are getting too far down the track on pushers on Kingston Hill. They may have been used in earlier days around the turn of the century (we need to check the employee timetables for certainty). Do we have facts? I do have the file on the changes in<SPAN class=Apple-converted-space> </SPAN>Chillicothe<SPAN class=Apple-converted-space> </SPAN>(somewhere) due to dynamometer car tests with Y-3’s. There was a sag in the RoW in Chilli that took the Y-3’s ‘off the power curve’ that was measured by tests. Improvements in the line and grade allowed a better run at the hill for w/b’s and allowed the Y-3’s to run at their best performance under load. The N&W made these tests while the C&O was still running on the Scioto Division 1917-1927. This change in grade and RoW was done in 1924 if I remember correctly. This file does not discuss the use of pushers on these Y-3 pulled trains at all. It does discuss the increase in tonnage on the trains. </SPAN></FONT></div>
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<div style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'"><FONT face="Times New Roman" color=navy size=3><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: navy"> Went back to a 1923 Scioto Division timetable and here are the ratings Portsmouth</SPAN></FONT></div>
<div style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'"><FONT face="Times New Roman" color=navy size=3><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: navy">to Joyce Avenue:</SPAN></FONT></div>
<div style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'"><FONT face="Times New Roman" color=navy size=3><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: navy"> <STRONG>year - 1923 1924 1925 1926 1929 1934 1942</STRONG></SPAN></FONT></div>
<div style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'"><FONT face="Times New Roman" color=navy size=3><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: navy"><STRONG>Time freight 2500 2500 2800 3100 3400 3800 5600</STRONG></SPAN></FONT></div>
<div style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'"><FONT face="Times New Roman" color=navy size=3><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: navy"><STRONG>Slow freight 6500 7000 7000 7500 8500 10,000* 12,500</STRONG></SPAN></FONT></div>
<div style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'"><FONT face="Times New Roman" color=navy size=3><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: navy"><STRONG>* Indicates ratings for H.P. Y-3s</STRONG></SPAN></FONT></div>
<div style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'"><FONT face="Times New Roman" color=navy size=3><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: navy"></SPAN></FONT> </div>
<div style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'"><FONT face="Times New Roman" color=navy size=3><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: navy">Each year, it appears that the tonnage rating went up. In the timetables, there</SPAN></FONT></div>
<div style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'"><FONT face="Times New Roman" color=navy size=3><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: navy">were no instructions for doubling the hill or tonnage ratings WITH pusher.</SPAN></FONT></div>
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<div style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'"><FONT face="Times New Roman" color=navy size=3><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: navy">That done, I thought the climb from the Scioto River up Delano Hill was</SPAN></FONT></div>
<div style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'"><FONT face="Times New Roman" color=navy size=3><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: navy">THE grade in both directions. It wasn't. The ruling grade is eastbound</SPAN></FONT></div>
<div style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'"><FONT face="Times New Roman" color=navy size=3><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: navy">from Dorney to Kingston -- 0.43%. Only have two years of ratings</SPAN></FONT></div>
<div style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'"><FONT face="Times New Roman" color=navy size=3><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: navy">from Joyce Avenue to Portsmouth for Y-3s<STRONG>:</STRONG></SPAN></FONT></div>
<div style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'"><FONT face="Times New Roman" color=navy size=3><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: navy"><STRONG> Year 1923 1956</STRONG></SPAN></FONT></div>
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