Station names (was "Kumis" topic)

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Frank,

I am curious.  What was the station name for the downtown C & O station in 
Charlottesville?

C. Chamberlayne
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> Bob Cohen said: "I am sure the N&W and VGN had longer ones or  similar 

> sized names as Charlottesville. I thought Sou just referred to it  usually 

> by its' tower's call sign, "JC". Southern also had Barboursville, 

> Alexandria, C&O had Gordonsville and the list goes on and on."

>

>

> Station names in train orders were always completely spelled out, no 

> matter how long they were.  The telegraph/telephone call signs were not 

> used for this purpose and station names were never abbreviated.

>

> Incidentally, JC Interlocking at Charlottesville (where the C&O Mountain 

> Sub-division and the Southern's Washington Division intersected) was a 

> different station name than Charlottesville, the passenger and freight 

> station.  JC was the train order office, but it and the depot are two 

> distinctly different locations even though they are less than one hundred 

> feet apart.  The same is true for Randolph Interlocking vis-a-vis Roanoke 

> passenger station.

>

> Best wishes,

>

> Frank Scheer

> f_scheer at yahoo.com

>

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