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Sun Dec 30 09:34:42 EST 2007


In a message dated 12/29/2007 11:40:41 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,
nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org writes:

Since the signals were installed well after the 1959 merger, why did they
install searchlights on the branch instead of the standard N&W CPL?

Ben:
More than anything else, I believe searchlight signals were installed
because of scarcity in
position light equipment, so I've been told Could Union Switch & Signal
have supplied more
position light equipment ? I don't know. Two years before, N&W had
converted the Winston
District from Automatic Block (with 19 short sidings) to traffic control
(with two signaled sidings;
a third, Philpott, was added later). The branch to Belews Creek required
additional signals also.
N&W respaced signals on the Norfolk Division and got a dual benefit - it
extended the block
length and the surplus signals went to make traffic control on the Winston
District a reality.

Harry
Bundy



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