N&W in 1912--Three items: Serious injury, New siding, Painting

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New Siding at Nemours
    A new siding is being put in  at Nemours by the Norfolk arid Western to 
accommodate the rock crusher  people there. It is learned the management 
of' the rock crustier expects to  ship twelve car loads of their product just 
as soon as the railway  facilities now being added have been provided.
 
[Nemours was/is located a mile or so east of  Bluestone, Mercer County, WV, 
and named for the E. I. DuPont de Nemours  & Co. that produced black powder 
at that location from 1904 to about 1950  according to the Website 
_http://www.bramwellwv.com/nemours.html_ (http://www.bramwellwv.com/nemours.html) .  
The attached picture of the powder plant is from the "Nemours Powder Plant" 
 link on the same Website.]

   Gordon:
     The bramwellwv. site has an entry "Nemous  Explosive Past".  It notes 
that on April 12, 1916,
     there was an explosion that blew out glass  storefronts in Bluefield.  
On January 26, the same
     year, there  was an explosion at East Yard in  Bluefield.  PRR 559061 
- black powder - had been
     billled by  Agent Hale at Powder  (NeMours ?).  It had been switched 
into Track #6.  Later,  a  cut
     of 9 cars with two car riders was  cut  off for the same track.  They 
couldn't control the speed of
     the cut  and the coupling was estimated to be  8 MPH.  PRR 559061 
exploded.  But Brakeman
     Adams seemed to gain some bragging  rights.  It was s.o.p. to have one 
car rider for every 7 cars,
     but  Adams stated he'd once ridden a  17-car cut into the yard . . . . 
. .SOLO !  It's all in the DOT
     library  web site.                               Harry  Bundy          
                                                        
 
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