Tuesday accident

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On Thu, Jul 16, 2015 at 8:35 AM, Mike wrote:

Using Street View there seems to be a signal for westbounds shortly before
> the accident site. Can anyone add details of what went wrong.
>

No details known yet (that anyone is talking about). From a 2003 track
chart, that section of track is single track, a seven mile block between
sections of double track. There is a home signal at JC at the Radford end
of the bridge over the New River (MP 302) and a home signal at Wysor, just
past Dublin (MP 309.2, can be seen from the VA 100 overpass). There are
automatic signals for both directions at MP 304.7 and 306.9 that give the
advance indication for the home signals. Track speed is 30 MPH as the line
climbs up from New River, then it changes to 40 MPH when the track comes
out of Morgan's Cut (about where the old U.S. 11 bridge crosses the track).
The grade averages 1% from the end of the bridge until it tops out a little
ways into the Wysor siding; there is a series of 6-degree left and right
curves between the river and Morgan's Cut, then the line is relatively
straight to Wysor (there are some short curves sprinkled throughout,
nothing that would impair forward vision though).

Bruce in Blacksburg
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