Abingdon Update

[NW Mailing List]

On 11/1/2018 5:24 PM, NW Mailing List wrote:

> The US&S salesmen sold the N&W an absolutely gold plated CTC system 
> for the Bristol Line (translation: more bells and whistles than they 
> needed,) so no doubt the electric lock for this switch was controlled 
> by a discrete 16-bit code address over the code line.

Abe,
     The south end of Elkton and Stuart's Draft sidings had a spur off 
of them where you had to contact the dispatcher in order for him to code 
the switch before you threw it. The signal in the siding would change 
from STOP to Restricting once the switch was thrown.

Jimmy Lisle