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Cedar train wreck, the Glossary

The Cedar train wreck occurred on the night of January 23, 1956, when the Norfolk and Western (N&W) Pocahontas passenger train derailed at more than along the Tug River near Cedar, West Virginia.^[1]

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January 1956 events in the United States
Railway accidents and incidents in West Virginia
Railway accidents in 1956

Abrasion (medicine)

An abrasion is a partial thickness wound caused by damage to the skin.

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Ambulance

An ambulance is a medically-equipped vehicle used to transport patients to treatment facilities, such as hospitals.

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Amtrak

The National Railroad Passenger Corporation, doing business as Amtrak, is the national passenger railroad company of the United States.

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Bluefield, West Virginia

Bluefield is a city in Mercer County, West Virginia, United States.

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Brakeman

A brakeman is a rail transport worker whose original job was to assist the braking of a train by applying brakes on individual wagons.

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A bruise, also known as a contusion, is a type of hematoma of tissue, the most common cause being capillaries damaged by trauma, causing localized bleeding that extravasates into the surrounding interstitial tissues.

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Bulldozer

A bulldozer or dozer (also called a crawler) is a large, motorized machine equipped with a metal blade to the front for pushing material: soil, sand, snow, rubble, or rock during construction work.

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Casey Jones

John Luther "Casey" Jones (March 14, 1863 – April 30, 1900) was an American railroader who was killed when his passenger train collided with a stalled freight train in Vaughan, Mississippi.

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Cavalier (N&W train)

The Cavalier was one of the named passenger trains of the Norfolk and Western Railway.

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Cedar, Mingo County, West Virginia

Cedar is an unincorporated community located in Mingo County, West Virginia, United States.

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Chesapeake and Ohio Railway

The Chesapeake and Ohio Railway was a Class I railroad formed in 1869 in Virginia from several smaller Virginia railroads begun in the 19th century.

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Chicago

Chicago is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Illinois and in the Midwestern United States.

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Cincinnati

Cincinnati (nicknamed Cincy) is a city in and the county seat of Hamilton County, Ohio, United States.

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Clerk

A clerk is a white-collar worker who conducts record keeping as well as general office tasks, or a worker who performs similar sales-related tasks in a retail environment.

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Commuter rail

Commuter rail, or suburban rail, is a passenger rail transport service that primarily operates within a metropolitan area, connecting commuters to a central city from adjacent suburbs or commuter towns.

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Conductor (rail)

A conductor (North American English) or guard (Commonwealth English) is a train crew member responsible for operational and safety duties that do not involve actual operation of the train/locomotive.

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Detour

A detour or (British English: diversion) is a (normally temporary) route taking traffic around an area of prohibited or reduced access, such as a construction site.

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Dining car

A dining car (American English) or a restaurant car (English), also a diner, is a railroad passenger car that serves meals in the manner of a full-service, sit-down restaurant.

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Elmira, New York

Elmira is a city in and the county seat of Chemung County, New York, United States.

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Excursion train

An excursion train is a chartered train run for a special event or purpose.

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Fireman (steam engine)

A fireman, stoker or boilerman, is a person whose occupation it is to tend the fire for the running of a boiler, heating a building, or powering a steam engine.

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In filmmaking and video production, footage is raw, unedited material as originally filmed by a movie camera or recorded by a (often special) video camera, which typically must be edited to create a motion picture, video clip, television show or similar completed work.

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Gilbert, West Virginia

Gilbert is a town in Mingo County, West Virginia, United States, along the Guyandotte River.

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Heritage railway

A heritage railway or heritage railroad (U.S. usage) is a railway operated as living history to re-create or preserve railway scenes of the past.

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Iaeger, West Virginia

Iaeger (pronounced YAY-ger) is a town in McDowell County, West Virginia, United States.

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Interstate Commerce Commission

The Interstate Commerce Commission (ICC) was a regulatory agency in the United States created by the Interstate Commerce Act of 1887.

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Kenova, West Virginia

Kenova is a city in Wayne County, West Virginia, United States, situated at the confluence of the Ohio and Big Sandy rivers.

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Kingsland, Georgia

Kingsland is a city in Camden County, Georgia, United States.

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Lawyer

A lawyer is a person who practices law.

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Maintenance of way

Maintenance of way (commonly abbreviated to MOW, also known as "Permanent Way Maintenance" or "PWM" in Britain.) refers to the maintenance, construction, and improvement of rail infrastructure, including tracks, ballast, grade, and lineside infrastructure such as signals and signs.

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Mingo County, West Virginia

Mingo County is a county in the U.S. state of West Virginia.

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Museum

A museum is an institution dedicated to displaying and/or preserving culturally or scientifically significant objects.

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National Railway Historical Society

The National Railway Historical Society (NRHS) is a non-profit organization established in 1935 in the United States to promote interest in, and appreciation for the historical development of railroads.

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Norfolk and Western 611

Norfolk and Western 611, also known as the "Spirit of Roanoke" and the "Queen of Steam", is the only surviving example of Norfolk and Western's (N&W) class J 4-8-4 type "Northern" streamlined steam locomotives.

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Norfolk and Western J class (1941)

The Norfolk and Western J class was a class of 14 4-8-4 "Northern" streamlined steam locomotives built by the Norfolk and Western Railway (N&W) at its Roanoke Shops in Roanoke, Virginia, between 1941 and 1950.

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Norfolk and Western Railway

The Norfolk and Western Railway, commonly called the N&W, was a US class I railroad, formed by more than 200 railroad mergers between 1838 and 1982.

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Norfolk Southern Railway

The Norfolk Southern Railway is a Class I freight railroad operating in the Eastern United States.

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Norfolk, Virginia

Norfolk is an independent city in Virginia, United States.

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Ohio State University

The Ohio State University (Ohio State or OSU) is a public land-grant research university in Columbus, Ohio, United States.

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Ontario Northland Railway

The Ontario Northland Railway is a Canadian railway operated by the Ontario Northland Transportation Commission, a provincial Crown agency of the government of Ontario.

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Passenger railroad car

A passenger railroad car or passenger car (American English), also called a passenger carriage, passenger coach (British English and International Union of Railways), or passenger bogie (Indian English) is a railroad car that is designed to carry passengers.

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Pentrex

Pentrex Media Group, LLC, is an American producer and seller of railfan-related videos and DVDs.

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Pocahontas (train)

The Pocahontas (or the Pokey for short) was one of the named passenger train, operated by the Norfolk and Western Railway (N&W) in the United States.

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Post office

A post office is a public facility and a retailer that provides mail services, such as accepting letters and parcels, providing post office boxes, and selling postage stamps, packaging, and stationery.

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Pullman Company

The Pullman Company, founded by George Pullman, was a manufacturer of railroad cars in the mid-to-late 19th century through the first half of the 20th century, during the boom of railroads in the United States.

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Rail yard

A rail yard, railway yard, railroad yard (US) or simply yard, is a series of tracks in a rail network for storing, sorting, or loading and unloading rail vehicles and locomotives.

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Railway Age

Railway Age is an American trade magazine for the rail transport industry.

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Railway brake

A railway brake is a type of brake used on the cars of railway trains to enable deceleration, control acceleration (downhill) or to keep them immobile when parked.

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Railway post office

In Canada and the United States, a railway post office, commonly abbreviated as RPO, was a railroad car that was normally operated in passenger service and used specifically for staff to sort mail en route, in order to speed delivery.

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Redondo Junction train accident

The Redondo Junction train wreck occurred at 17:42 on the evening of January 22, 1956, on the Santa Fe Railroad in Los Angeles. Cedar train wreck and Redondo Junction train accident are Derailments in the United States, January 1956 events in the United States and railway accidents in 1956.

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Right angle

In geometry and trigonometry, a right angle is an angle of exactly 90 degrees or radians corresponding to a quarter turn.

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Roanoke City Council

The Roanoke City Council is the governing body of the city of Roanoke, Virginia.

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Roanoke Shops

The Roanoke (East End) Shops in 2004 The Roanoke Shops (comprising the main East End Shops and the West Roanoke Yard and shops at Shaffers Crossing) is a railroad workshop and maintenance facility in Roanoke, Virginia.

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Roanoke, Virginia

Roanoke is an independent city in the Commonwealth of Virginia in the United States.

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Rolling stock

The term rolling stock in the rail transport industry refers to railway vehicles, including both powered and unpowered vehicles: for example, locomotives, freight and passenger cars (or coaches), and non-revenue cars.

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Running board

A running board or footboard is a narrow step fitted under the side doors of a tram (cable car, trolley, or streetcar in North America), car, or truck.

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Sandbox (locomotive)

A sandbox is a container on most locomotives, multiple units and trams that holds sand, which is dropped on the rail in front of the driving wheels in wet and slippery conditions and on steep grades to improve traction.

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Scalding

Scalding is a form of thermal burn resulting from heated fluids such as boiling water or steam.

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Scioto County, Ohio

Scioto County is a county along the Ohio River in the south-central part of the U.S. state of Ohio.

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Scrap

Scrap consists of recyclable materials, usually metals, left over from product manufacturing and consumption, such as parts of vehicles, building supplies, and surplus materials.

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Simmons-Boardman Publishing

Simmons-Boardman Publishing is an American publisher, specializing in industry publications.

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Sleeping car

The sleeping car or sleeper (often wagon-lit) is a railway passenger car that can accommodate all passengers in beds of one kind or another, for the purpose of sleeping.

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Steam

Steam is a substance containing water in the gas phase, often mixed with air and/or an aerosol of liquid water droplets.

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Steam locomotive

A steam locomotive is a locomotive that provides the force to move itself and other vehicles by means of the expansion of steam.

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Tender (rail)

A tender or coal-car (US only) is a special rail vehicle hauled by a steam locomotive containing its fuel (wood, coal, oil or torrefied biomass) and water.

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The Roanoke Times

The Roanoke Times is the primary newspaper in Southwestern Virginia and is based in Roanoke, Virginia, United States.

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Throttle

A throttle is a mechanism by which fluid flow is managed by constriction or obstruction.

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Train driver

A train driver is a person who operates a train, railcar, or other rail transport vehicle.

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Train wreck

A train accident or train wreck is a type of disaster involving two or more trains.

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Travelling exhibition

A travelling exhibition, also referred to as a "travelling exhibit" or a "touring exhibition", is a type of exhibition that is presented at more than one venue.

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Tug Fork

The Tug Fork is a tributary of the Big Sandy River, long,U.S. Geological Survey.

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Valve gear

The valve gear of a steam engine is the mechanism that operates the inlet and exhaust valves to admit steam into the cylinder and allow exhaust steam to escape, respectively, at the correct points in the cycle.

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Virginia Museum of Transportation

The Virginia Museum of Transportation (VMT) is a museum in Downtown Roanoke, Virginia, that is devoted to the topic of transportation.

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W. Graham Claytor Jr.

William Graham Claytor Jr. (March 14, 1912 – May 14, 1994) was an American attorney, United States Navy officer, and railroad, transportation and defense administrator for the United States government, working under the administrations of three US presidents.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cedar_train_wreck

Also known as Tug Fork train wreck.

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See also

January 1956 events in the United States

Railway accidents and incidents in West Virginia

Railway accidents in 1956

References