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Joe:
This may help.  The former US&S traffic control panel from Bluefield
to Narrows is in my basement.  The 361.7 (or is it 361.9 ?)  signal on the
Radford pull-in has a dark target meaning it isn't controlled.  West of
that point, the pull-in is not signaled.  Here's something I learned the
hard way on the Madison District (ex-NKP).  Can't find the applicable
rule, but the last signal you get leaving signaled territory is a RESTRICTING.

A real shame the pull-in isn't signaled beyond that point.  Westbounds
usually take the pull-in and stop to swap crews near Grant Street. In
October, 1970, I was sent to Bluefield to investigate a complaint about
train order delivery.  One night about 9:00 PM, an mty train was 
climbing the pull-in when light units from a Clinch Valley job entered
the track directly in front of the mty train near Belcher Street.  The
engineer on the hopper train "big-holed" the brake and slack rippled
through tossing the conductor against the door handle of the caboose.
He was in the hospital for almost a year.  Always safety conscious, the
big question unfortunately turned to who would bear the the injury --
the Radford Division or the Pocahontas Division ?  It depended on
where the caboose stopped.                  Harry Bundy 

  



 
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