Roanoke Track Work

[NW Mailing List]

With the exception of the new crossovers on the Shenandoah line next 
to the Foundry, all of the recent work has been the installation of 
new signals.

One of the new tracks will pass straight through the north leg of the 
existing signal bridge that is just west of Jefferson Street. 
Therefore it is my belief that the major track work will not begin 
until the new signaling system is in place.

They have started work on the signals at the edges and been working 
towards the center, ending under the rail cam. They have been 
trenching and laying cable behind the O WInston Link Museum since 
around Thanksgiving.

Another measure if progress are the signals laying down in a staging 
yard just west of 10th Street. There are only 4 signals waiting to be 
installed. This past week a new signal bridge (ahem "cantilever" :-) 
) arrived at the staging yard.

I have been taking pictures but there is not much to see except 
ditches and cables.

The rail cam will have a front-row seat to some of the most 
significant changes to the tracks in years.

Ron Davis

At 04:07 PM 1/29/2014, NW Mailing List wrote:

>I will admit that I haven't followed this project extremely close, 

>but mainly through Ron Davis' excellent photo coverage over the past 

>few months.

>

>However, I believe that most of the work to date has been signal 

>installation and all that that encompasses, not counting the removal 

>of the old passenger platform behind the former station (OWLM). 

>While the signal construction work is progressing, none of them has 

>been "cut in", or activated. That's because the tracks are still 

>intact in their original alignment, and therefore still need the 

>original signals in order to operate.

>

>I have heard (and I'm sticking my neck out a little because I am not 

>privy to any special info) that the major track work will begin 

>sometime in March, or there about.

>

>Jeff Sanders



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