Wreck at Ellett on Virginian

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Wed Feb 22 00:10:53 EST 2012


I can only imagine... I was 39 when my dad passed and that was
traumatic enough.

Ed

On 2/21/2012 9:58 PM, NW Mailing List wrote:

> Harry,

> The fireman killed in the 1941 accident at Kumas was named "Steorts."

> His son was a classmate of mine at Princeton High School, and the son

> told me recently how crushed he was as a nine-year-old when he learned

> that his father was killed in the wreck.

> Gordon Hamilton

>

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> *Sent:* Tuesday, February 21, 2012 2:47 PM

> *Subject:* Re: Wreck at Ellett on Virginian

>

> You can read the ICC accident report for this 1927 head-on

> collision at Ingleside here:

> http://ntl1.specialcollection.net/scripts/ws.dll?websearch&site=dot_railroads

> <http://ntl1.specialcollection.net/scripts/ws.dll?websearch&site=dot_railroads>

>

> Gordon:

> I used the DOT library to check out the March 13, 1941

> investigation which occurred at

> Kumis. Maybe Kumis had been misrepresented as Ellett. It hadn't.

> Later I found they're

> 12 miles apart.

> No steam engines were involved, but the investigation revealed

> several historical facts:

> 1- This was the last VGN investigation where the ICC

> identified crew members by name.

> 2- Even before radio, VGN had concocted a system to communicate

> signals between units.

> 3- VGN began installing spring switches in 1931 and by 1941 had 16

> spring switches in service.

> 4- At the west end of Kumis was a #10 turnout, but VGN later

> upgraded turnouts to #15's.

> 5- Originally the distant signals for spring switches were

> semaphores, but were later changed to

>

> searchlights. Harry

>

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