Train order signal - Bedford, Virginia

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Harry's parenthetical note about the original main line alignment west of
Bedford reminds me that when the NWHS 2004 Convention was in Roanoke, Bev
Fitzpatrick drove the bus that took a group to the D-Day Memorial in
Bedford.  Coming down the Rt. 460 bypass west of Bedford, he remarked that
its alignment was partially on the old N&W alignment.

Dave Phelps

On Fri, Jul 27, 2018 at 9:16 PM NW Mailing List <nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org>
wrote:

> Harry
>
> Conductor Clem High lost his life in that wreck.  He was the conductor on
> the local.
>
> Jim Blackstock
>
> On 7/27/2018 4:09 PM, NW Mailing List via NW-Mailing-List wrote:
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>
>
> Frank:
> Landon Gregory occasionally worked at Bedford as operator.  He told me
> he was on hand at the passenger station to sell tickets at train time, then
> circulated to the freight station (on the original main line through
> Bedford)
> to do clerical work.  Maybe the signal was arranged so that it could be
> manipulated from either station.
>
> No doubt visibility played a part.   On June 11, 1945, Extra 1233 East
> passed
> the signal and rear-ended a local east of the overhead bridge in the
> background:
> 1 killed, 2 injured.  ICC attributed the collision to overspeed.   Harry
> Bundy
>
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