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

Sat Jul 21 11:30:33 EDT 2018

Hello, Mason
     I worked for N&W many years ago in Lorain, Ohio, and many of my relatives worked at NW in Lorain and in Portsmouth.  My wife's uncle, Jim Barker, worked for many years in the shop at Shenandoah.  A great guy, he was my role model in life.  Just wondering if you knew him there?
 Albert Hook
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Subject: RE: N&W Train Control, Shenandoah - Hagerstown, 1926 Complete Description

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

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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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