Question about Virginian Class AE operations following Clarks Gap electrification

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I would guess it was typical for that section of road. We know the 800 never made it to Goodview that fateful day, but for those 800s that did, it was pretty much down hill from there to the sea where, hopefully, they made better time.
Jeff Sanders
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  Following is from the ICC Report regardingthe April 1, 1941 boiler explosion of AEEng 800 at Stewartsville.  Keep in mind thatthe information is only one example. "The train consisted of 150 cars of coal andcaboose, the weight of the train was 13,479 tons.That weight is an estimate.  In the era beforeweigh-in-motion scales, loads were weighed justbefore dumping. Clerks used an arbitrary tareweight (24 tons usually. but 22 tons on theSouthern) and computed the loaded weight basedon the number of 50 ton cars and the numberof "battleship" gons to calculate the estimatedtonnage.Extra 800 East departed Roanoke at 4:10 a.m.the AE exploded at about 5:20 a.m. --  12.7miles in 1 hour 10 minutes. Typical ?                          Harry Bundy


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