new, old 1218 video on YouTube

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To be even pickier, Rev Jim, it was most likely an APCO truck belonging to 
Appalachian Power Company, the subsidiary of AEPCO (American Electric Power 
Company) that operates the Glen Lyn power plant.

As a footnote, several years ago AEPCO decided to do away with all the 
regional subsidiary names and the APCO label was removed from everything, 
including the trucks.  Then, two or three years ago they revived the 
Appalachian Power Company name and it's back on the trucks and on the old 
headquarters building on Franklin Road in Roanoke.  I never stopped making 
my checks out to APCO, and they never had any trouble cashing them.

Sam Putney

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> Jerry:  It was an AEPCO truck. That's who ran the power plant at Glen Lyn. 

> Glad to learn that you guys were all that close to where I was.  Jim 

> Nichols

>

>

>>I was there, too, helping clear the debris from US 460. A VEPCO truck (or 

>>some

>> such power co.) was there and they had a chain saw.  They cut the tree 

>> branches

>> and we drug them off of the road.  We were so disappointed at getting 

>> caught

>> in the slide.  We just knew we had missed the train pulling in to 

>> Bluefield.  But as

>> it turned out, they had their own slide problems, so we were still able 

>> to get to

>> Bluefield in time to see it come in.

>>

>> Jerry Kay, Portsmouth, VA

>>

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>>>Date: Fri, 27 Jun 2008 19:38:36 -0400

>>>From: NW Mailing List <nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org>

>>>Subject: Re: new, old 1218 video on YouTube

>>>To: "NW Mailing List" <nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org>

>>>

>>>How well I remember too, Jim.  I was driving John Snidow's Ford Bronco.

>>>And, boy, that high clearance came in real handy that day.  I also 

>>>remember

>>>helping clear some slide debris from 460 west of Narrows.  And the East

>>>River was even wilder than the New River that day.  But what great steam

>>>effects!

>>>

>>>Sam Putney

>>>

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>>>Sent: Tuesday, June 24, 2008 4:53 PM

>>>Subject: Re: new, old 1218 video on YouTube

>>>

>>>

>>>> How well I remember!  That was the day they almost aborted the run just

>>>> east of Glen Lyn because the heavy rains had caused high water, fallen

>>>> trees, and messed up signal systems. They considered backing the train 

>>>> to

>>>> Walton. After sitting still for an hour or so, they decided to go on to

>>>> Bluefield (as intended). This gave us time to clear a fallen tree from 

>>>> 460

>>>> with a borrowed chain saw so we could proceed west. We chased as far as

>>>> Oakvale, where the WV state troopers had closed the road up East River. 

>>>> We

>>>> had to go to Bluefield through Princeton. Coming back, Ron Flanary got 

>>>> a

>>>> great scan shot at Ada. (published in Trains several years later)

>>>> Jim Nichols

>>>>

>>>>

>>>>>

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>>>>>>From: NW Mailing List <nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org>

>>>>>>Sent: Jun 23, 2008 8:31 PM

>>>>>>To: NW Mailing List <nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org>

>>>>>>Subject: new, old 1218 video on YouTube

>>>>>>

>>>>>>Yesterday I posted to YouTube some video of 1218 from 1987. It was

>>>>>>shot on VHS and doesn't measure up to currently available consumer

>>>>>>video, but hey, it's video over 20 years old.

>>>>>>

>>>>>>I especially like the segment at about 2:30 where 1218 tries to

>>>>>>restart on wet rail on

>>>>>>Christiansburg Mountain. Great sound. And it looks to me like O.

>>>>>>Winston Link makes a cameo appearance.

>>>>>>

>>>>>>Enjoy.

>>>>>>

>>>>>>< http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=so7-Fu2psjc >

>>>>>>

>>>>>>Ross Hunter

>>>>>>Orange, VA

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