Signaling & Towers Burkeville-Pamplin, 1916

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At long last, Google Books is getting around to digitizing some issues of the periodical "Railway Signal Engineer." So far, they have digitized the 1917, 1919 and 1922 volumes. 


The 1917 volume (which is Volume 10) has a three page article (page 135) on the installation of electric semaphores on both lines between Burkeville and Pamplin the previous year (1916)... 76 automatic signals on the old line and 84 automatics on the new line, plus interlockings at both Burkeville and Pamplin. There is also a photo of Burkeville Tower and a description of the power house built at Crewe to provide the juice. 

The following link should lead you to the digitized book, which will appear in HTML. You may also download it as a PDF file. 


http://www.google.com/search?q="railway+signaling+and+communications"&hl=en&prmd=b&ei=2E42TP7MLML-8AbH2_3LAw&start=0&sa=N 


If the link doesn't work for you, go to the URL www.books.google.com and in the search field type (with quotation marks) "railroad signaling and communications" . For some reason, Google is not digitizing the books under their proper name, which is "Railway Signal Engineer." 


I would hope that the Roanoke archive has someone snag all of Google's digitizations of the Railway Signal Engineer as they come out, and put all the PDFs on CDs. It would then be a rather easy task to create a database of all articles dealing with the N&W, as each year's volume was well indexed. 


-- abram burnett, 
retired dilettante 
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