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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