Ball's Hole on the Radford Division

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Back in late 2016, we had a discussion on the list about the location on
the Radford Division of Ball's Hole and BA tower. While working through the
subject index cards for President's Johnson's correspondence at GOB East, I
ran across an entry for "Elliston to Glenvar Change in alignment of Balls
Hole". I pulled out file no. 4724, which had two letters. The first was
from N. D. Maher, 2nd Vice President and General Manager, to Johnson,
suggesting that taking out Ball's Hole would be an improvement that would
save money. Johnson's reply was that it was a good idea but the money for
the project would be better spent elsewhere. His suggestion was to reduce
the speed to 25 MPH and enforce it, and avoid running freight and passenger
trains through at the same time.

It was interesting to see top management refer to this location
specifically as Ball's Hole; now to dig some more to see if the source of
that name can be documented.

Bruce in Blacksburg
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