Tonnage Ratings and Weather Reductions for Locomotives

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 Not that it mattered--the tables seemed to be ignored by Pocahontas Div train crews.
 

A one-week study of tonnage hauled by trains to and from Roanoke revealedthat there were 26 over-tonnage coal trains handled Bluefield to Roanoke.The truth is that no one knew the actual tons being hauled.  A constant24-tons was used to calculate the tare weight of hoppers (VGN used 22 tons), andbased on capacity of the hopper 55 tons, 70 tons, or  100 tons was estimatedto be the load.  In some cases, the bona fide loaded weight wasn't revealeduntil scaled at Lamberts Point. 
Then came the weigh-in-motion scale at Prichard, WV.  So some 150 or 200miles from origin, the actual tonnage became known  From memory, a hopperwith 6 1/2 X 12" journals can handle a loaded weight of 272,000# (since increasedto 288,000#) and now there's a weigh-in-motion scale on the former VGN nearNarrows.  Any one crossing the U.S. 220 bridge over South Yard ever noticed theloads set-out for a crane to remove sufficient tonnage for  the hopper to be incompliance ?                            Harry Bundy#yiv6889832440 #yiv6889832440 -- _filtered #yiv6889832440 {panose-1:2 4 5 3 5 4 6 3 2 4;} _filtered #yiv6889832440 {font-family:Calibri;panose-1:2 15 5 2 2 2 4 3 2 4;} _filtered #yiv6889832440 {font-family:New;panose-1:0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0;} #yiv6889832440 #yiv6889832440 p.yiv6889832440MsoNormal, #yiv6889832440 li.yiv6889832440MsoNormal, #yiv6889832440 div.yiv6889832440MsoNormal {margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:New serif;} #yiv6889832440 a:link, #yiv6889832440 span.yiv6889832440MsoHyperlink {color:blue;text-decoration:underline;} #yiv6889832440 a:visited, #yiv6889832440 span.yiv6889832440MsoHyperlinkFollowed {color:purple;text-decoration:underline;} #yiv6889832440 p.yiv6889832440msonormal, #yiv6889832440 li.yiv6889832440msonormal, #yiv6889832440 div.yiv6889832440msonormal {margin-right:0in;margin-left:0in;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:New serif;} #yiv6889832440 span.yiv6889832440msohyperlink {} #yiv6889832440 span.yiv6889832440msohyperlinkfollowed {} #yiv6889832440 span.yiv6889832440emailstyle17 {} #yiv6889832440 p.yiv6889832440msonormal1, #yiv6889832440 li.yiv6889832440msonormal1, #yiv6889832440 div.yiv6889832440msonormal1 {margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:serif;} #yiv6889832440 span.yiv6889832440msohyperlink1 {color:blue;text-decoration:underline;} #yiv6889832440 span.yiv6889832440msohyperlinkfollowed1 {color:purple;text-decoration:underline;} #yiv6889832440 span.yiv6889832440emailstyle171 {color:blue;} #yiv6889832440 span.yiv6889832440EmailStyle25 {font-family:sans-serif;color:black;} #yiv6889832440 .yiv6889832440MsoChpDefault {font-family:sans-serif;} _filtered #yiv6889832440 {margin:1.0in 1.0in 1.0in 1.0in;} #yiv6889832440 div.yiv6889832440WordSection1 {} #yiv6889832440 
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