N&W Train Control, Shenandoah - Hagerstown, 1926 Complete Description

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The attached article is an excellent piece and tells EXACTLY how the N&W's
cab signals worked between Shenandoah and Hagerstown, including the aspects
displayed on the cab signal and their meanings.


In 1965, I began making trips over the Shenandoah Division and several
years later held a regular job there while furloughed from the Radford
Division.  I quizzed the 1940s enginemen about how the cab signals worked,
and their answers  ranged from bad to worse, despite that fact that the cab
signals had only been gone 7 or 8 years.  One 1940s hog head even told me
that the cab signals "only lit up when you were a quarter mile from an
interlocking,"  and then added, quite laconically,    "... I think."  Oh,
Mercy !


This article removes all doubt.


It is sad that one of the steam cab signals from the Shenandoah Valley
operation was not preserved.


-- abram burnett


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