VGN 800

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Sun Mar 6 08:13:13 EST 2011


While at the Virginia Room of the Roanoke Public Libraries last week,
Alicia Sell, the archivist (who has toured the NWHS Salem Avenue Archives
and was impressed) showed me some snapshot pictures that had been donated
to the Virginia Room showing details of the 1941 explosion of VGN 800 at
Stewartsville. Some show seldom-seen arrays of staybolts (something you
don't want to see very often.). After I answered her questions by
identifying such things in the pictures as staybolts, fire box sheets,
etc., I asked her if the NWHS could have copies of the pictures.
After getting permission from the donor of the pictures, Alicia sent me a
CD with the images that I plan to place in the NWHS Archives next week.
I am attaching thumbnails of the pictures in order to learn if anyone has
seen these pictures before. Please respond if so.
The attached picture of the overall accident scene is different from the
picture of the overall scene on page 92-93 of H. Reid's book on the
Virginian as revealed by the different locations of people in the two pictures.
I think that this may be a unique addition to the NWHS Archives.
Gordon Hamilton


















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