N&W Train No. 18

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Rather hard to hit the century mark on a line that has more coils and humps 
than the garden hose tossed into my furnace room...
I'd also venture S.C. is a lot flatter than SW Va., meaning track speeds 
would be a lot higher.
Kinda like comparing the old SLSF main west out of St. Louis up and over the 
Ozarks to the old IC flatland line across the Illinois prairie. One saw 
100mph varnish daily. Guess which one.

Andre Jackson and/or Lisa Burrows
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Subject: N&W Train No. 18



> Harry Bundy  calculates that N&W passenger train No. 18 ran the 151 miles

> between Bristol and Roanoke in  207 minutes.  The ACL had several name

> trains such as  Nos. 1 and 2, the East Coast Champion, that routinely ran 

> the

> 172 miles between South Rocky Mount, N.C. and Florence, S.C. in  160

> minutes, or two hours and 40 minutes.  You tell me who the speed merchant

> was in this  situation.  Bill Sellers

>

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