What Race Horse Said About His Automatic Block Signals in 1924 (Bristol Line)

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     I recall some story I saw in print that may have involved an N&W 
passenger engineer, or maybe not. It seems when automatic block signals 
were cut ino on his division, his fireman fireman called out clear 
blocks as they went west from origin, but some miles out he called out 
"approach". The engineer did not take steps to reduce speed, telling the 
fireman that he was running a first class train and those signals are 
for everyone else. Rear end collision happened moments later, with the 
engineer going to his grave with that opinion perhaps changed.

     WJPowers


On 7/20/2018 3:52 PM, NW Mailing List wrote:
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> Short article by Race Horse Smith about the benefits of installing 
> automatic block signals (semaphores) between Roanoke and Bristol.
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