Train order signal - Bedford, Virginia

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Frank:

I'm very familiar with that location, as the station building is now a very
nice restaurant.  They would have been almost right across from the
station, but as you can see in the picture, the station was on the inside
of a curve and the building itself not particularly visible to westbound
trains.  I suspect that's the basis of where the train order signal was
positioned.

Dave Phelps

On Fri, Jul 27, 2018 at 11:51 AM NW Mailing List <nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org>
wrote:

> Hello, all:
>
> Please see the attached 1958 image currently on eBay which includes the
> Bedford train order signal.  It is evident that the signal is located some
> distance from the depot and is operated by semaphore motors in the cases at
> the bottom of the mast.  Does anyone recall other N&W locations at which
> the train order signals were activated in a similar manner rather than
> using the conventional linkage to levers inside the operator's office?
>
> Thank you,
>
> Frank Scheer
> f_scheer at yahoo.com
>
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