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Thanks to all who contributed to the IDing of the post-eletrification shot
of the US 52 crossing at Iaeger.  Grant, you are a treasure trove of Pokey
operational knowledge that needs to be recorded and disseminated.  Is there
any way that I could entice you to share some with the group?  If you would
be willing to talk about this stuff with a recording device on, I would
certainly be willing to transcribe it into articles for the Arrow.  If
there is anything else I could do to help get that gold out of your brain
(Vulcan mind meld perhaps:^), just let me know.  I 'm interested in every
little detail about how things worked and looked in the days of steam in
this region and I'm quite sure other Society members share this interest.
Thanks again so much for sharing,
Jiim

On Wed, Jan 18, 2017 at 2:56 PM, NW Mailing List <nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org>
wrote:

> Jim,
>
> The shot is looking west at the US 52 grade crossing in Iaeger near the
> western end of the electrified territory. The controlled signals governed
> diverging movements over two main crossovers ahead, plus the Hull Middle
> Track and the east leg of the wye onto the Dry Fork Branch into Auville
> Yard. Post-1954 (thanks, Dave), auxiliary tenders had been in service, so
> the lack of one indicates this is likely an Elkhorn crew out of Bluefield
> returning with Dry Fork east coal, likely 160 loads and a Pocahontas Pusher
> (also out of Bluefield).
>
> All N&W signals were either automatic or controlled. Eastward automatics
> were numbered according to the nearest even tenth of a milepost, westward
> nearest odd tenth. Controlled signals were numbered according to the signal
> lever number and throw direction, (L)eft or (R)ight. Iaeger Tower faced
> north, so levers were thrown left to line westward signals, right to line
> eastward. The signal levers had even numbers and the switch levers had odd
> numbers, both in no particular order.
>
> All N&W signals were either "Stop and Stay" or "Stop and Proceed" signals.
> To be safe and sure, the "S" plate served as a permanent, fixed aspect
> (immune to mechanical or electrical failure) to designate a "Stop and Stay"
> signal. "S" plates were still in the 1960 signal diagrams, but a rule
> change by the 1980's (when?) replaced them with "the absence of number
> plates."
>
> Grant Carpenter
>
> On 1/17/2017 2:42 PM, NW Mailing List wrote:
>
> FWIW, the car in the foreground is a 1954 Mercury.
>
> Dave Stephenson
>
> On 1/15/2017 6:51 AM, NW Mailing List wrote:
>
> Can anyone help identify the location of this photo currently on Ebay:
>
>  http://www.ebay.com/itm/ORIGINAL-NEGATIVE-Neg-A740-
> 1950s-N-W-Norfolk-Western-Articulated-Steam-Coal-/272519614252?hash=
> item3f736f4f2c:g:HScAAOSwnHZYd6rk
>
> Note the grade crossing with road paralleling the tracks to the rear of
> the train.  Catenary support with "stop and stay" signals would seem to
> indicate sidings to the rear of the train.
> The "38L/S" and "40L/S" labels under the signals, I believe had something
> to do with corresponding "levers" in a switch tower or by this time
> electric switches on the control panel used to select a specific route
> through and interlocking plant.  Did the "S" refer to a switch?  I would
> welcome all information on these designations from you signal guys out
> there, especially gospodeen Abe.
> Jim Cochran
>
>
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