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Harry,
Could you possibly send me some photos of the control panel? I would  
appreciate it!
Ray Russell Sr.
 
 
In a message dated 8/2/2013 3:52:11 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,  
nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org writes:



Joe:
This may help.  The former US&S traffic control panel from Bluefield
to  Narrows is in my basement.  The 361.7 (or is it  361.9 ?)  signal on the
Radford  pull-in has a dark target meaning it isn't controlled.  West of
that point, the pull-in is not signaled.  Here's something I learned the
hard way on the Madison  District (ex-NKP).  Can't find the applicable
rule, but the last signal you get leaving signaled  territory is a 
RESTRICTING.

A real shame the pull-in isn't signaled beyond  that point.  Westbounds
usually take the  pull-in and stop to swap crews near Grant Street. In
October,  1970, I was sent to Bluefield to investigate a complaint about
train order delivery.  One night  about 9:00 PM, an mty train was 
climbing the pull-in when  light units from a Clinch Valley job  entered
the track directly in front of the  mty train near Belcher Street.  The
engineer  on the hopper train "big-holed" the brake and slack rippled
through tossing the conductor against the door handle  of the caboose.
He was in the hospital for almost a year.  Always safety conscious,  the
big question unfortunately turned to who  would bear the the injury --
the Radford Division or the Pocahontas Division ?  It depended on
where the  caboose stopped.                   Harry Bundy  




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