A Bad Hair Day Rex _Sheridan

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Gary,

  The fact that this track was installed a hundred years ago makes it hard 
to ID the reason behind it. But, eastbound traffic into Kenova seems to me 
to have never had any volume that would necessitate a hold track for train 
loads unless something very interesting was going on way back when. From the 
40 s on my observation show the morning eastbound set off for interchange 
and the evening Ironton local returning to Kenova with the thru hot shots 
east and west hardly ever making a Kenova set off or pick up. My first 
thought that the munitions plant at South Point may have played a role, but 
that was a WII factor and REX seems by these messages to predate Allied 
Chemicals Nitrogen Processing Plant by decades. I then fall back that a long 
siding on each side of Kenova (because of it being a three railroad 
interchange point; N&W, C&O, and B&O made a long term strategic decision a 
reasonable point, as my feelings about N&W management's long range-forward 
looking management style gave them their ability to be so strong 
financially.

    As to holding movements from the East at Prichard and points on east 
would be in order with the number of river bound coal movements making those 
sidings a must.

    Anyway, thanks for the replies. This is the part of rxr history that 
gets my attention, the WHY of it all. It really falls into the same 
interesting read that I had about electronic tracking of long distance 
trucking. The first single point transcontinental trucking company of any 
size (operational base was only at Fort Scott, KS) installed refueling 
communications throughout the US. They put 50 gallons fuel tanks on their 
units so that the truck had to be refueled daily and only at set refueling 
sites with this "leased line" communication set up that linked into the Fort 
Scott computers. The first item they studied were the units that were 
refueling ("out of route"- excessively out of route). SURPRISE, girl friends 
!!!

    History is fun !!

    Oakie G. Ford


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> Larry and Oakie:  Wouldn't this center siding be used as the eastbound 

> hold

> out for trains waiting to get into Kenova Yard ( or whatever track they

> stashed a train on in that area)?   The N&W must have had some sort of 

> track

> for the hold-out.

>

> Gary Rolih

>

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> Oakie

>

>    REX was your standard N&W center passing siding  just like Cyrus,Neal

> ,Union or Gennetts

> used for passing trains. and was operated from KX tower at Kenova  9560ft 

> in

>

> length east switch

> was located about 2000 ft  west of the Rt 52 (Now old 52) crossing at 

> South

> Point. I have checked

> some timetables that I have. It was still their in 1961 but gone by 1968.

> Someone else might narrow

> it down a little closer. Also their was a crossover for a while at the 

> west

> end after the siding was removed

> Westbound 1 to 2 maim. This was maintained in addition to the double

> crossover at South Point but

> I don't know for what reason . You can see were it was located from any of

> the aerial photo severs on the internet.

>

>

> Larry Evans

> Kenova, WV

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>> Gary,

>>

>> I don't think that US 52 relocation was near REX. In fact US 52 moved 3/4

>> mile north of the old routing and made the South Point crossing a local

>> street crossing. The R 0f W changes were 3 miles west of the crossovers

>> and in a location near the Ashland - Coal Grove bridge and known as the

>> "the Narrows" where you can see the still standing rock "sculpture" that

>> gives us the double S curve east of the bridge that has always brought

>> questions as to why did they leave such a spot in the line of such heavy

>> tonnage. When the NS set the line east of the rock closer to the hwy 10

>> years ago, because of slippage into the river being nonstop, it seemed to

>> a civilian that was the time to take out the rock and the double curve.

>>

>> I hadn't heard the word REX in 35 years. And I don't recall every seeing

>> the third track. And I have a question as to what was its purpose ?

>>

>> Oakie G. Ford.

>>

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>>>

>>> And stuff would have changed when the US 52 relocation construction was

>>> done as well to remove the crossing altogether.  The N&W RoW was altered

>>> significantly in spots when US 52 moved.  Gary Rolih Cincinnati

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>>> Ed

>>>    I don,t know when the double crossover was install at South Point. 

>>> But

>>> my thinking is the Rt 52 crossing and the REX siding probably did not

>>> work to good together. Just my thought.

>>>

>>>

>>> Larry Evans

>>> Kenova, WV

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