Christiansburg N&W CPLs Going, Going, . . .

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Those old signal heads are quite collectible, if NS will give you one.

J. Kelling

On Tue, Nov 18, 2014 at 5:04 PM, NW Mailing List <nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org>
wrote:

> Had a depressing lunch in Christiansburg today, to confirm what I thought
> I had seen in the dark last week -- signal work is going on in ernest to
> replace the iconic N&W signals at one of the best train-watching locations
> on the Radford Division. You will still be able to sit at the station in
> Cambria and see both eastbound and westbound signals, but it just won't be
> the same. Towers have been erected at the three signal locations close to
> the station. The cantilever with new signals has been mounted for the
> eastbound "Christiansburg" signals and will probably be installed this
> afternoon for the westbound signals at "Pelton." The cantilever with
> signals for the westbound "Christiansburg" signal is on the ground adjacent
> to that signal and will probably be installed later this week. Based on the
> orange conduit pipe and cable scraps in a dumpster on the site, quite a bit
> of wiring work has been done there, too. The "Christiansburg" signals
> protect the crossover from main 1 to main 2 (EB to WB) at 289.7, which is
> used to cross eastbound stack trains to run reverse main to and through
> Montgomery Tunnel. The "Pelton" signals at 290.5 protect the opposite
> crossover from main 2 to main 1 (WB to EB). The eastbound signals for
> "Pelton" (visible from the N. Franklin St. bridge) were converted to Darth
> Vaders several years ago. It was inevitable, but still sad.
>
> Bruce in Blacksburg
>
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JK
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