Iaeger, WV CTC installation

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Can anyone here elaborate on the specific location of the CTCmachine at Iaeger (WV)? 

 

Old copies of the 'Railway Signal Engineer' list the quote “Iaegermachine” as a 36-lever mechanical, installed in 1916. I believe this to havebeen in the DY tower (Dry Fork Junction) at the wye west of town.

 

TheJanuary, 1948 issue of 'Railway Signaling' mentions modifications of the interlocking at Iaeger,which included “the removal of all mechanical interlocking facilities, andarranging for control of all interlocked functions from a new miniature leverinterlocking machine in lieu of the present mechanical interlocking machine.”

 

Timetables from the 1950’s era are confusing. In the station tablefor the Pokey mainline (i.e. Bluefield to Williamson), two offices are shown asIAEGER, both at 57.2 miles (from Bluefield) and with office calls CT (the daylightonly agency and ticket office) and DY (a 24-hour interlocking station). DryFork Junction at the west end of the wye, where the old DY tower had beenlocated, isn’t listed at all. Is it safe to assume that DY tower had beenclosed by this time and that the CTC machine had been relocated to the depot/stationbuilding, but continued to use the DY office call?

 

Any help would certainly be appreciated.

 

Ron Stafford

 

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