Salem, Virginia Stations

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One more thought on this topic.

I'll bet that the Salem station was moved "up on the hill" at the time this 
portion of the Radford Division was double tracked, and 1891 would be about 
right for that.

Then the question becomes this:  Between the time of the double tracking and 
the time when automatic block signaling was installed, where were the manual 
block stations?  The block from WB to Glenvar would have been 8 miles long.  
Was 8 miles too long for a block on this busy piece of main line, especially 
where a water tank and a middle track was involved?  Or was there a block and 
train order station in the old Salem freight station until the automatic block 
signals came around, thus splitting the 8 mile block between WB and Glenvar?

Sorry to be a pest.  But I am always trying to figure out the process by 
which things came to be as they are at present...

-- abram burnett 
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