Automatic Train Control

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Gary

Shame on you.  The article was reprinted in the N&WHS Newsletter Vol. 1. No. 5 
(a lot easier to get a copy of).  The end of cab signals was described in Vol. 2 
No. 5.

The second article says the railroad had 84 locomotives on the Shenandoah 
District in 1956.  The Train Control function was removed in 1933 but the cab 
signals remained.  The N&W wanted to do away with the cab signals before there 
were any diesels delivered.

Stoney

Rick C. Stone

nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org wrote:
> In the April 1926 issue of the N&W magazine, there is an article 
> describing the installation of the ATC for the Shennandoah Division on 
> the Class J 4-4-2’s .
> 
>  
> 
> Other handy sources for descriptions of ATC devices are Locomotive 
> Cyclopedias, especially, the ones from the 1920’s and early 1930’s.
> 
>  
> 
> G Rolih, Cincinnati  
> 
>  
> 
> -----Original Message-----
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> Subject: Re: 1920 Rural Retreat Wreck Photos
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>  
> 
> Gordon,
> 
>  
> 
>     I have no knowledge of the steam locomotives equipped with the train 
> control.  However, when I first started with N&W in 1963 as an 
> apprentice electrician, I remember testing a couple of the "Redbird" 
> passenger diesels that had what was called "automatic train control".  
> We used what looked like  tuning forks to activate a device under the 
> brake rigging and it would initiate a penalty application of the train 
> brakes if not acknowledged.  The train control equipment was located on 
> the long hood right side just in front of the cab window at the end of 
> the walkway and outside the carbody door that opened to the generator.  
> I was never told where they were used.  Were these units used on the 
> "Cannonball" to Richmond?
> 
>  
> 
> Skip Salmon
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> Skip and Judi Salmon
> 3721 Buckingham Drive
> Roanoke, VA 24018-2448
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>     -------------- Original message from nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org:
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> 
>>  Pete,
>>
>>  The Cannonball's operated over the ACL between Petersburg and
>     Richmond.
>      > Because that line of the ACL was equipped with a type of
>     automatic train
>      > stop not installed anywhere on the N & W, any N & W locomotive
>     operating
>      > over that line had to be specially equipped with the ACL
>     automatic train
>      > stop mechanism. To minimize costs, only a limited number of N & W
>      > locomotives were so equipped in order to provide the Cannonball
>     service.
>      >
>      > Published photographs in Prince's and Reid/Lewis' books show the
>     120 and the
>      > 122 in the vicinity of Richmond with the Cannonball, so these two
>      > locomotives must have been equipped with automatic train stop.
>     There may
>      > have been another one or two also.
>      >
>      > Maybe others can confirm this or give more details.
>      >
>      > Gordon Hamilton
>      > ----- Original Message -----
>      > From:
>      > To: "N&W Mailing List"
>      > Sent: Monday, November 15, 2004 4:38 PM
>      > Subject: Re: 1920 Rural Retreat Wreck Photos
>      >
>      >
>      > > Thanks - I should have remembered that none of the K-1s were
>      > > streamlined - too lazy to look it up in the books.
>      > >
>      > > (TAN However, wasn't there a K2 or K2a that was known for
>     handling the
>      > > Cannonball every day for some years? (The 120?) It was kind of
>     a demo
>      > > that steam could have high availability like the diesels, IIRC.
>      > >
>      > > pete groom
>      > > On Nov 14, 2004, at 3:37 PM, nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org wrote:
>      > >
>      > > > Both were rebuilt to service. 558 was retired and scrapped in
>     June of
>      > > > 1952. The 102 was a K1, (100-115) none of the Class K1 were
>      > > > streamlined, only K2 (116-1250 and K2a (126-137) were
>     streamlined. The
>      > > > 102 was retired and scrapped in October 1957.
>      > > >
>      > > > Ken Miller
>      > > > . . .
>      > >
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