N&W collision at Rural Retreat

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Results of the accident as follows:

https://planeandtrainwrecks.com/Document?db=DOT-RAILROAD&query=(select+12+(byhits+(field+RAILROAD+(anyof+NORFOLK))))

On Fri, Jun 16, 2023 at 2:17 PM NW Mailing List <nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org>
wrote:

> Frank,
> I have an extra large reprint that I made for one of the descendents of
> one of the engineers. Happy to send to you. I also have other photos, one
> particularly gruesome.
> There has been a lot of discussion of this event on this forum, about two
> years ago, and there is an ICC report.
>
> Frank Akers
> f-akers at pacbell.net
>
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> On Fri, Jun 16, 2023 at 1:19 PM, NW Mailing List via NW-Mailing-List
> <nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org> wrote:
> The attached three photos of one very long picture at the Princeton Railroad Museum inside a glass case.  Does anyone know the facts for this head-on collision
> of trains 14 and 37 on October 20, 1920, at Rural Retreat, such as the
> direction of each end and which train number is which train?  The train at
> the right has a PRR car which telescoped over the tender.  Was it a RPO car
> or one with an express messenger?
>
> If the N&W HS can arrange a loan to make a high-resolution scan (i.e. 600
> dpi and removed from the
> frame), I guarantee that I will purchase a copy --whatever the cost.
>
> Thank you,
>
> Dr. Frank R. Scheer, Curator
> Railway Mail Service Library, Inc.
> f_scheer at yahoo.com
> (540) 837-9090 - daytime cell
> In the 1913 former N&W Railway depot along Clarke County route 723
> 117 East Main Street
> Boyce, VA 22620-9369
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