NW-Mailing-List Digest, Vol 100, Issue 29

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Much has changed on the  "Park St." side of the yard. The old "Pull Up" yard, with the yard office at 16th St., was totally changed in the 1980s. A lot of tracks were removed, particularly on the west end of the Pull Up. The Forwarding Yard was extended laterally, that is, tracks FY10, 11, 12, & 13 were created from previous Pull Up tracks. Also, the EBRT & WBRT from Park St. to about 16th St. were turned into Forwarding Yard tracks FY9 & FY10.
 
I don't know off hand if I have a map of the pre '80s yard, but will try to find something, if no one else finds it first.
 
Jeff Sanders



On Wednesday, October 16, 2013 10:59 AM, NW Mailing List <nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org> wrote:
  
Would Link's "Roanoke Terminal Map" be similar to the trackage (from Park St 
west) back in 1955 (pre-diesel and pre-VGN merger)?  In what ways would it 
differ?  Does anyone have a detailed track map of Roanoke for 1955 or 
earlier?  Thank you.
Glenn Fisher
Cornwall PA

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>   1. Re: NWHS 2014 Classic Calendar (NW Mailing List)

>   2. Re: Roanoke Junction (NW Mailing List)

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> Date: Mon, 14 Oct 2013 11:29:05 -0400

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> Alex, thanks for all you guys do.  Ed.

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> Subject: Re: Roanoke Junction

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> This has been a fascinating discussion; I hope someone can capture it all,

> pull it all together, and create something to save and share (Arrow 

> article

> or on the web somewhere?). From some other group, I obtained the "Roanoke

> Terminal Map," a PDF document created by W. Stephen Link in 2005 (not that

> I can find the original source via Google). While I know of some of the

> locations that have been mentioned in the thread, I have been trying to 

> pin

> down others using this map. It would be helpful if someone could annotate

> (or create) this map to show where these switches and crossovers are

> located to enhance this discussion.

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> I'm also curious as to why the one line is called the "Old Eastbound Main"

> when I can't find any indication of a "new" eastbound main -- or is the

> implication that there aren't any through eastbounds and any such movement

> will use the Eastbound Running Track?

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> I've attached the map and the appropriate page extracted as a jpg image. 

> If

> anyone can shed any light on this map, it would probably be helpful.

>

> Bruce in Blacksburg

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> http://nwhs.org/wiki/tiki-browse_image.php?imageId=575

> http://nwhs.org/mailinglist/20131017.RoanokeTerminalMap.pdf

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> On Mon, Oct 14, 2013 at 9:29 AM, NW Mailing List

> <nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org>wrote:

> On 10/13/2013 1:46 PM, NW Mailing List wrote:

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>> Help, now I'm confused, power switches outside interlockings?  Which,

>> where, how?

>>

> In Roanoke, they are located on the Forwarding Yard ladder & its derails,

> the Park Street ladder, the east end of the Empty Side ladder. These are

> controlled by the Roanoke dispatcher. The Hump Tower controls power

> switches for the Hump Yard and Rt.66 (going from the Receiving Yard (Big

> Hopper Yard tracks 1 - 10) east to the Old Eastbound Main Line just east 

> of

> the hump on the south side. No big deal guys. Just like putting remote

> power switches on your model railroad.

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> Jimmy Lisle

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> Date: Mon, 14 Oct 2013 21:52:59 -0400

> From: NW Mailing List <nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org>

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> On 10/14/2013 8:36 PM, NW Mailing List wrote:

>> when I can't find any indication of a "new" eastbound main

> Bruce,

>     There is no "New" eastbound main line. The "Old Eastbound Mainline"

> is essentially just a running track on the far south side of the yard

> with all movements between the signal at 672 shanty to the signal at

> Park St. ("The Bakery" - for the now defunct nearby Kroger Bakery) made

> at restricted speed.

> Eastbound movements from "Big Hopper Yard" tracks 1 -10 can be made VIA

> the Old Eastbound Main (also equally known as Track 57), yard track

> 56/#1 Forwarding Yard and track 55/#2 forwarding Yard.

> Eastbound movements from "Big Hopper Yard" tracks 11 - 20 can be made

> down the Eastbound or Westbound Running tracks, track #9 Forwarding Yard

> (which bears off of the Eastbound R/T east of the shop track cleanout

> building) or the "Drag Strip"/#8 Forwarding Yard.

> Eastbound movements made from the Empty Side Yard tracks 1 - 10 can be

> made down (from L to R looking east) the Westbound Main, "The Running

> Track" (better know as #1 Park St.) or the "Tail Track" which runs into

> the Westbound Running Track at 19th St.

>

> BTW, the map you provided can be very very very confusing! Things are

> just not what they seem on the map. It is much better to look at the

> yard on Google Earth to see how things truly are laid out.

>

> Jimmy Lisle

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> Date: Mon, 14 Oct 2013 20:53:41 -0700 (PDT)

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> Subject: RE: 2014 Color Calendar

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> I get the high cost of color printing. Yet the prospect of offering great 

> color imagery is valuable to historians and just looks nice 

> IMHO.<br/><br/>Andre Jackson<br/>Sent from Yahoo Mail for iPad

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