1950’s Pokey Farm question #1

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Greetings All,

I’m a little tardy getting back into this discussion due to my email account being down over the weekend.  

Grant, thanks for the detailed breakdown.  It was exactly what I was looking for.

Mike, my answer to your question about modeling this scene is “yes”.  I’m preparing a pretty major overhaul on my layout in which I want to model an operationally correct 1950’s version of Farm.  That was my main reason behind my original question.

Great stuff!  Thanks to all who contributed.

Thank Ya’n Out,
Chris Dalton 
Bluefield, WV
Sent from my iPhone

> On Dec 1, 2023, at 6:23 PM, NW Mailing List <nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org> wrote:
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> Chris,
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> Regarding the attached Company track plan, the graphics are correct, but a label is incorrect. The second track under the coaling tower, adjacent to the Westbound Main, was Westbound Storage. The east switch was at the east end of the Middle Track just short of the middle signal of three adjacent eastward signals, aka "The Three Sisters." Local/mine runs could set off here from either main without blocking access to the coaling tower.
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> The west switch was near the east/upper outlet switch (of two on the WB Main) for the tipple at Caples. Here the WB Storage diverged and returned to the Middle Track and to the WB Main. As a result, west loads were easy to set over from outlet to storage if Caples was getting full. Local/mine runs could set off west cars and River crews could fill out here while on either the WB Main or the Middle Track. All four switches were hand-throws and the track was dark.
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> In addition to west coal loads and empty westbound freight cars, empties for Caples were set off here, and for Huger when Huger Middle was full.
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> Although the WB Storage Track was routed underneath the coaling tower and had access to water and a dedicated sand spout, it apparently was not used as a service track. It was a storage track, so access was from the near end only, and coal was not available. Movements in and out would have to deal with a lock on a hand-thrown switch, plus a pipe-actuated derail uncomfortably close to the standpipe that otherwise serviced the WB Main.
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> Grant Carpenter
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>> On 9/4/2023 5:12 AM, NW Mailing List wrote:
>> Page 9 from Arrow Article on Farm shows track layout.
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>> Alex Schust
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>> Subject: 1950’s Pokey Farm question 
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>> Greetings to All,
>> 
>> During my lifetime and dispatching career on the Pokey the track layout at Farm (listed north to south) has always been Main 2 (wb main), Middle Track, #2 Storage, #1 Storage and Main 1 (eb main).  The current track configuration has only the Middle Track running directly under the coaling tower.  I’ve noticed in pictures from August Thieme, William Gordon and a drawing from Louis Newton that in the 1950’s two tracks ran directly under the coaling tower.  Can any of you guys elaborate on the 1950’s track configuration and how it was used?
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>> Thank Ya’n Out,
>> Chris Dalton
>> Bluefield, WV
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