Pemberton

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For C&O trains to get into Winding Gulf,  they had to cross VGN at  
Pemberton.   In April 1958  I was in this depot with my brother and  
Jim EuDaly talking to operator about lineup.  Pemberton depot was  
maintained by the VGN and the agent-operator was a VGN employee.  Mr.  
Wood , the agent,  was neighbor to my uncle E. W. Huddleston in  
Beckley, a C&O conductor in the Raleigh coal district.   The  
"diamond"  at Pemberton was protected then by a tilting target  
signaL, as I recall.  When i was last there in the 1980s,  the  
building and the signal masts were gone.  C&O   (CSX?) trains at that  
time were still using their own tracks into the Gulf.    A CSX  
shifter from Stone Coal Jct. showed up while i was there.   Instead  
of a tilting target signal,  its movement was governed by a standard  
highway stop sign on a post.   -  Gene Huddleston