N&W in 1910--Unconscious

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Still have over 12 hour shifts here in the UK but luckily only when the train plan has
fallen by the wayside and everyone is trying to get the trains to their destinations on
time. Worst I have done is 18½ hours. I can well believe the entire N&W crew
asleep. I have been on a locomotive and both myself and the fireman have been
like nodding donkeys!

Regards to you all,


Regards to you all,

Cameron
                                              

Cameron Míċeál Tyre, MPWI

SD40-2 at illinois.usa.com            
                                              




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When the Scioto Division ran from Columbus to BLUEFIELD, there is a recorded instance of  an entire crew pulling into Bluefield yard sound asleep.  This would have been in the days of 16 hours service.  
 
Gary Rolih
Cincinnati
 

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This is slightly confusing to me.  How would it be that it would take the fireman that long to find that his engineer is unconscious?  Even on the M's and W's (and possibly others) where the engineer is alongside the boiler forward of the backhead, I would think an "apparently lifeless" man would be easily noticed by the fireman, who presumably would be able to see alongside the boiler from his firing position.

Was there that little communication between the two in practice, or is the firing work heavy enough that the fireman wouldn't have time to notice?

Matt Goodman
Columbus Ohio

 


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Bluefield Daily Telegraph
November 24, 1910

 

UNCONSCIOUS AT THE THROTTLE OF HIS ENGINE
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Engineer Struck by Rock at Genoa and Not Found Until Train Was at Rodney
    Riding a distance of four miles unconscious at the throttle, Norfolk and Western Engineer J. C. Neff, of Portsmouth, was found by his fireman inert and apparently lifeless as the train was pulling into Rodney, W. Va.
    Neff is supposed to have been struck on the head by a rock thrown by [someone], for a four-inch gap was found in his scalp.
    Neff says that the last thing he remembers is when he was passing through Genoa, a distance of five miles to Rodney, where he was found by the fireman as stated.  He was placed on board a freight and taken to Williamson.
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[Rodney and Genoa were on the old Twelve Pole line between Naugatuck and Kenova.]
 
Gordon Hamilton


 


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