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Harry, one day I'm going to have to sit down with you and get all your stories on record.  Robb Fisher
RFDI > At Bluefield, coal got a preliminary classification at East> Yard.? That is, tidewater coal would go in one (or more)> track,? Shenandoah Division in another,? Hyco and > Bellews Creek in another, etc.? From the yard office,> car riders would mount the cars and tie the hand> brake?to make a "coach yard coupling".? The> car riders would collect at the east end of the yard> and wait for a motor car to return them to the yard> office.? East Yard has been phased out now in> favor of a yard west of Falls Mills.> > In 1970, the Radford Division supervision was making> complaints that the car riders weren't observing> safety rules.? The Safety Department assigned me> to follow up.? Turned out that the car riders were> very safety conscious, but the antics going on at> the east end when Radford Division crews had to knock> off 25 hand brakes and double over left a whole lot> to be improved.? The trainmaster stepped on a cut> lever trying to knock a hand brake off.? A Pocahontas> Div. crew cut their train off and entered the Radford> Division pull-in immediately in front of a hopper train.> The engineer shot'em and bounced the conductor> from one end of the caboose?to the door handle> on the other.? He was out of service for over a year.> Because the caboose stopped?east of "RD", the> Radford Divison had to take the injury.? > ?????????????????????????????????????? Harry Bundy> > > -------------- next part --------------> An HTML attachment was scrubbed...> URL: <http://six.pairlist.net/pipermail/nw-mailing-list/attachments/20090107/37e14c93/attachment.htm>> > ------------------------------> > ________________________________________> NW-Mailing-List at nwhs.org> To change your subscription go to> http://list.nwhs.org/mailman/options/nw-mailing-list> Browse the NW-Mailing-List archives at> http://list.nwhs.org/pipermail/nw-mailing-list/> > End of NW-Mailing-List Digest, Vol 39, Issue 10> ***********************************************
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