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Granddad (W.R. Bloyd) retrieved a brass boiler washout plug from the  
wreckage of the 800 and had one of the machinists at Victoria lathe-turn it into  
a paperweight for him, which sits on my desk today. There's a picture of it 
 on the Virginian Yahoo site under "Virginian artifacts'. He said he had to 
have  a piece of it, since a week prior to the explosion, he had reported 
the same  injector problem that had caused it. 
 
Greg Harrod
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In a message dated 08/02/2015 6:39:11 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time,  
nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org writes:

 
Ed,


I was hanging out at JK, perhaps a  decade after you were there, and Mr. 
Weatherly told me the same story. He also  drove to the site of the blow-up 
after getting off duty that morning. The  sights he saw that morning would 
raise the hair on the necks of  the hardiest of men.


A true tragedy of the rails.


Jeff Sanders


 
  
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The late Clyde Weatherly was working  at JK Tower that morning and handed 
up 800’s orders, caught by the head  brakeman.  Clyde told me that the 
engineer had his head down as if  already asleep.  The fireman was a brand new man 
who fired it on the  westbound trip and tried to lay off the eastbound; he 
didn’t think he could  handle it, but there was nobody to relieve him.
 
EdKing
 
 





 
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Following is from the ICC Report regarding
the April 1, 1941 boiler explosion of AE
Eng 800 at Stewartsville.  Keep in mind that
the information is only one example.
 
"The train consisted of 150 cars of coal and
caboose, the weight of the train was 13,479 tons.
That weight is an estimate.  In the era before
weigh-in-motion scales, loads were weighed just
before dumping. Clerks used an arbitrary tare
weight (24 tons usually. but 22 tons on the
Southern) and computed the loaded weight based
on the number of 50 ton cars and the number
of "battleship" gons to calculate the estimated
tonnage.
Extra 800 East departed Roanoke at 4:10 a.m.
the AE exploded at about 5:20 a.m. --  12.7
miles in 1 hour 10 minutes. Typical ?
                          Harry Bundy



 
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