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

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Adam,

                I remember walking around the car shop area at Shenandoah in the 1970s and seeing a signal detector bar, with most of the sensors intact, that they used to attach to the rear of the tenders. But with the scrap cleanups I am sure it is gone now. 

Mason Cooper

 

From: NW-Mailing-List [mailto:nw-mailing-list-bounces at nwhs.org] On Behalf Of NW Mailing List
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Subject: Re: N&W Train Control, Shenandoah - Hagerstown, 1926 Complete Description

 

Glad I took the time to find all of these articles! It makes me happy to see such excitement with others when I thought I was the only one that got excited about it!

Eric

 

Eric Davis

Columbus District

 


On Jul 20, 2018, at 18:04, NW Mailing List <nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org> wrote:

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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