Fw: N&W Telephone Boxes

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----- Original Message -----
From: "Edward King" <edking1 at worldnet.att.net>
To: "N&W Mailing List" <nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org>
Sent: Tuesday, June 22, 2004 11:29 PM
Subject: Re: N&W Telephone Boxes


> During the glory days of the 3-engine Blue Ridge assaults, so many
railfans
> were using the telephone boxes to bug the dispatchers about where the
trains
> were that Dick Dunlap had locks put on them and "Lock Me" stencilled in
> black on the door.
>
> Somewhere I've got a slide of one of these with the lock hanging down by
the
> chain . . .
>
> (And no, I didn't unlock it.)
>
> Ed King
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> Sent: Tuesday, June 22, 2004 11:27 AM
> Subject: Re: N&W Telephone Boxes
>
>
> > Dear Abeie:
> >
> > There were four pole-mounted telephone boxes at the Bonsack
> > double crossover - one on each side of the tracks and at
> > both ends of the interlocking.
> >
> > A picture of one of the boxes appears on p. 129 of "The Last
> > Steam Railroad in America."
> >
> > In 1913, N&W had designs for an IRON telephone box for the
> > Telegraph Department, N&W drawing D-14075.
> >
> > There was a variation of the steel telephone box on the
> > double track, ABS section of the railroad.  Where detours
> > were possible, N&W had wood telephone shanties -- no indoor
> > plumbing (no outdoor plumbing either), a slab of wood for
> > the block sheet and a telephone.  Air conditioning was supplied
> > by windows on each side.  As you probably know, only
> > supervisors were allowed to work each end of a detour.  Apparently, the
> shelter was to allow supervisors a modicum
> > of comfort.  One of these was located at the east end of
> > traffic control Disputanta.
> >
> > I'm not familiar with the incident.  It was not the derailment
> > at Gennetts, but Louis Newton cited an incident where east-
> > bounds were being detoured between East Portsmouth and South
> > Point on the Scioto Division.  After several weeks, the detour
> > was shortened and the train order No. 26 received at Portsmouth
> > so indicated.  The engineer, however, failed to note that the
> > detour had been moved farther west.  As the train approached
> > the crossover, the supervisor observed that the train was
> > moving at excessive speed.  He evacuated the detour station,
> > and moments later, it was demolished.
> >                              Harry Bundy
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