Ball's Hole on the Radford Division

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Bruce, Good stuff. Can you remind us all what made this spot so troublesome? Curvature? Gradient? Other?     Thanks,  John Garner

 

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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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