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I like this answer Tom. Just a simple/practical loco maintenance issue. I would assume NW turned them for the same reason. Also, I wondered if Bluestone Shop would ever have had a reason to request a loco be turned so that it entered the shop in the direction they needed/preferred.   Just musing,  John Garner

 

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The Virginian turned their electrics on occasion to balance the wear and tear.

Tom marshall


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Except that they never had to turn the electrics, since the double units had a cab on each end.

 

Jim Nichols

 

On Tuesday, September 12, 2017 3:20 PM, NW Mailing List <nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org <mailto:list at nwhs.org> > wrote:

 

 

John Garner asked:

> Anyone know how far and why catenary was extended down the CV line?

 

According to N&W Engineering Dept. drawing 10672A (NWHS Archives drawing

HS-CC10898) ( http://www.nwhs.org/archivesdb/detail.php?ID=136771  <http://www.nwhs.org/archivesdb/detail.php?ID=136771> ),

in 1920 electrification ended right at milepost N367 (CV367 today), at the end

of Montgomery St., which was before the west end of the siding was reached.

As the drawing was created for extending the siding to the west, the drawing

is unclear on whether the sidings were electrified or just the main track.

It does show a few electrification poles on the south side of the tracks

opposite ones on the north side, which is suggestive but not conclusive.

 

Looking at this photo, which is looking in the opposite direction than the

photo that started this discussion, it appears the siding was not electrified,

at least by the late 1940s. Whether the siding was previusly electrified at

some point is still undetermined.

http://www.nwhs.org/archivesdb/detail.php?ID=70516

 

> Was the Graham wye still in at the time of initial electrification?

 

According to N&W Engineering Dept. drawing 10063A (NWHS Archives drawing

HS-G00133), ( http://www.nwhs.org/archivesdb/detail.php?ID=146988  <http://www.nwhs.org/archivesdb/detail.php?ID=146988> ), the

Graham wye existed and was (already) electrified in 1923.

 

This wye was presumably the only place the railroad had to turn the electrics

under their own power when needed, at least until the electrification was

extended to Iaeger. 

 

Joe Shaw

 

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