Reusing Signals

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I have never seen an N&W PL arm with all nine lights in it!  Do you have a photo of one?  I went through the 1945 rulebook, and can't find where the left to right decending diagonal would have been used on a top arm.  Now, it could be done on a lower arm.  
   
  I have attached a photo documenting the aspects.  Look at the second, or "B" arm.  If a signal could meet all conditions for routes beyond it, then they could have possibly done this.  Is the one you're referring to on the top arm, or lower arm?
   
  Ben Blevins

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          Harry
   
       I don't think there would have been any scarcity in PLs
  as they are still available today as new equipment. But I
  do have a question for you . What were the full head signals
  all nine lights on one arm used for in Portsmouth and Roanoke?
   
  Thanks
  Larry Evans
  Kenova, WV
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  I have often wondered what happened to all the signals that were removed on the Bristol Line through the years.  Signalled sidings were removed at Wyndale, Hayter, Meadowview, Chilhowie, Seven Mile Ford, McMullin, Atkins, Groseclose, Crockett, Grubb, Kent, Max Meadows, Granite, Wurno, and Melborn.  Bracket signals were removed at all these locations, as were most of the 9'8 cases.  The home signals had the lower arm removed, and were thus converted to automatic signals.  Many were left at their original locations, so they had no opposing signal.  The only realignments I am aware of were at Wyndale, Chilhowie, McMullin, Crockett, and Kent.  Hayter was completely removed, home signals and all.  Wyndale was retained as a control point only.  The rest were left at their orignal locations.
   
  I assume all the removed components and such were reused in other places.  
   
  I wonder why some of the signal installations were realigned, and others weren't.  Anybody know why?
   
  Ben Blevins
  

 
    More than anything else, I believe searchlight signals were installed because of scarcity in
  position light equipment, so  I've been told   Could Union Switch & Signal have supplied more
  position light equipment ? I don't know.  Two years before, N&W had converted the Winston
  District from Automatic Block (with 19 short sidings) to traffic control (with two signaled sidings;
  a third, Philpott, was added later).  The branch to Belews Creek required additional signals also. 
  N&W respaced signals on the Norfolk Division and got a dual benefit -  it extended the block
  length and the surplus signals went to make traffic control on the Winston District a reality.
   
                                                                      Harry Bundy



    
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