Roanoke District double track

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Certainly it doesn't provide the in-depth information a train sheet would,  
but
here are the SCHEDULED trains appearing in Shenandoah Div. TT #14 
effective 10/26/58
 
NORTHWARD'
1st Class - No 2
3rd Class - Nos. 88-52-96
4th Class - No. 102 (local freight except Sundays)
 
SOUTHWARD:
1st Class - No. 1
3rd Class - Nos. 51-95
4th Class - No. 103 (local freight except Sundays)
 
The timetable won't show you how many of the schedules were annulled, but  
neither
does it show service provided by extras and sections.
 
Note that the schedule has no provision for a southbound counterpart  to No. 
88,
but I betcha  Mr. Fitzgerald (Shenandoah Division chief  dispatcher) didn't 
deadhead
the crew from No. 88 back to home terminal every time it arrived  Shenandoah. 
 The
crew probably come south on a time freight extra. So - Monday thru  Saturday, 
looks
like one could count on 10 trains a day, at least.
 
When the Winston District was traffic controlled, there were far fewer  
trains on the
Winston District than were on the Roanoke District.  Traffic Control  was 
justified 
through the elimination of the operators necessary for the single track ABS  
operation.
 
Now Jimmy - the 1952 track chart shows a siding that opened north at MP  165.4
and is identified as Pkin Spur.  I'm not sure this was a remnant of  the 
former wye
or if it was the lead to some mines, by then abandoned. It was on the  east 
side of
the northward main track.  I might make one more point -- the track  chart 
shows a
trailing crossover between the depot and the wye at Lofton and also a  
trailing crossover
south of Pkin Spur.  The track layout was in place, if N&W  had just had 
foresight to
go a little farther north of the apex over Lofton  Mountain.  
                                                                              
        Harry Bundy   
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