N&W Train Control, Shenandoah - Hagerstown, 1926 Complete Description

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Glad I took the time to find all of these articles! It makes me happy to see such excitement with others when I thought I was the only one that got excited about it!

Eric

Eric Davis
Columbus District


> On Jul 20, 2018, at 18:04, NW Mailing List <nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org> wrote:
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> The attached article is an excellent piece and tells EXACTLY how the N&W's cab signals worked between Shenandoah and Hagerstown, including the aspects displayed on the cab signal and their meanings.
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> In 1965, I began making trips over the Shenandoah Division and several years later held a regular job there while furloughed from the Radford Division.  I quizzed the 1940s enginemen about how the cab signals worked, and their answers  ranged from bad to worse, despite that fact that the cab signals had only been gone 7 or 8 years.  One 1940s hog head even told me that the cab signals "only lit up when you were a quarter mile from an interlocking,"  and then added, quite laconically,     "... I think."  Oh, Mercy !
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> This article removes all doubt.
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> It is sad that one of the steam cab signals from the Shenandoah Valley operation was not preserved.
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> -- abram burnett
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