Ed's time in Bristol

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EdK replied ...

>>>. I didn?t get any Southern steam photos at Bristol or anywhere else; they ran their last steam in June 1953 and I didn?t get a good camera until 1955.   <<<

How about in 1956 from near Duffield running east back to Bristol shooting that Southern train (loco only) pulled by an N&W Z (that had pulled a little boiler duty at Foote mineral)?

Or, do we need to ask Clyde?… Bob

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On Monday, September 7, 2015, nw-mailing-list-request <nw-mailing-list-request at nwhs.org> wrote:

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Re: Ed talking J-life at Bristol (NW Mailing List) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Sun, 6 Sep 2015 02:10:26 +0000 (UTC) From: NW Mailing List <nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org> To: N&W Mailing List <nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org> Subject: Jacob Foller, N&W Telegrapher at Roanoke, 1901 Message-ID: <mailman.248.1441540704.3885.nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Presently listed on Ebay (item # 201421201130v) is an Order of Railroad Telegraphers membership certificate issued to Jacob Foller of Roanoke, in 1901. More accurately, it is a certificate of membership in the ORT's Mutual Benefit Association, the organization's insurance wing. Because the photographs in the listing are not clear, I wrote the seller to confirm the man's name. I do not need this piece, as I already have one. They are nice certificates, measuring 12 x 18.5", and display nicely when framed. I have never seen Jacob Foller's name in any records heretofore. Has anyone else? -- abram burnett "SW" Telegraph Office =========================== Sent to You from my Telegraph Key ... better than AT&T 4G LTE =========================== ------------------------------ Message: 2 Date: Sun, 6 Sep 2015 02:33:46 -0400 From: NW Mailing List <nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org> To: nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org Subject: Ed talking J-life at Bristol Message-ID: <mailman.249.1441540704.3885.nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Ed King wrote about the J locos at Bristol ... >>>> Occasionally it became necessary to turn the J arriving at Bristol on #41 to leave OT with #46. You talk about a lotta shaking. The engine had to back the mile and a half to the roundhouse, get her fire cleaned, coaled and watered, in the house for a quick check and lubricating the rods, and back out and back down to the station. But somehow, it got done. But such capabilities were designed into the J. The Ks, as good as they were (and they were good) with their 1919 technology couldn't hope to perform like that. <<<< Edward ... Did this by chance happen during your college-boy days when you spent summers working jobs at the Bristol roundhouse and taking photos of that last Southern steam train? Ooooohhh yeah ... I remember you ... Bob Bob Loehne 7028 Tallent Court    Sherrill's Ford, NC 28673 800-611-1218 oezbob at aol.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <https://pairlist6.pair.net/pipermail/nw-mailing-list/attachments/20150906/acf1a14b/attachment-0001.html> ------------------------------ Message: 3 Date: Sun, 6 Sep 2015 12:38:49 -0400 From: NW Mailing List <nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org> To: "NW Mailing List" <nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org> Subject: Re: Ed talking J-life at Bristol Message-ID: <mailman.314.1441570688.3885.nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Bob - I didn?t get any Southern steam photos at Bristol or anywhere else; they ran their last steam in June 1953 and I didn?t get a good camera until 1955. I did see the #41-#46 quick turn done more than once with the J?s; if #41 was on time, it was easier but not easy; if #41 was late it was difficult. But Js could get a #41 forty or so minutes late at Monroe and get it into Bristol on time. Same way on the eastbound trips. And the Bristol line was no picnic ? curves and grades abounded, and tested the acceleration potential that was built into the J. That?s why they put 70-inch drivers under that engine, and why they were well satisfied with that decision after it was done. Then they took the 610 up on the Pennsy in 1944 and ran it 111 MPH, at a driving wheel RPM of about 540. The PRR people said it rode better than anything they ever had up there except the S-1 6-4-4-6, which had 84-inch Baldwin Disc driving wheels. The J made do with home-designed spoked drivers, but they were, arguably, the best counterbalanced steam locomotives west of Wales. EdK From: NW Mailing List via NW-Mailing-List Sent: Sunday, September 06, 2015 2:33 AM To: nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org Cc: NW Mailing List Subject: Ed talking J-life at Bristol Ed King wrote about the J locos at Bristol ... >>>> Occasionally it became necessary to turn the J arriving at Bristol on #41 to leave OT with #46. You talk about a lotta shaking. The engine had to back the mile and a half to the roundhouse, get her fire cleaned, coaled and watered, in the house for a quick check and lubricating the rods, and back out and back down to the station. But somehow, it got done. But such capabilities were designed into the J. The Ks, as good as they were (and they were good) with their 1919 technology couldn't hope to perform like that. <<<< Edward ... Did this by chance happen during your college-boy days when you spent summers working jobs at the Bristol roundhouse and taking photos of that last Southern steam train? Ooooohhh yeah ... I remember you ... 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