At the top - Ringing the DS from Whitetop - Hello, Mr. Duncan !

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 Here is a image I took inside the Green Cove station in 2015. It gives the
ring codes for the various stations. Might not be new information but I was
surprised to see it still on the wall!

- Roger Link

[image: GreenCove.jpg]

On Mon, Oct 21, 2019 at 8:49 AM NW Mailing List via NW-Mailing-List <
nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org> wrote:

> Apologies as I have had Mr. Duncan off line for a few days as we ventured
> north to Strasburg. I am driving him back to his home on the hill today and
> will pass word that his knowledge is being sought after!
>
>
> Thanks,
>
> Will Sadler
>
> -------- Original message --------
> From: NW Mailing List <nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org>
> Date: 10/20/19 4:42 PM (GMT-05:00)
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> Subject: Re: At the top  - Ringing the DS from  Whitetop - Hello, Mr.
> Duncan !
>
> Well, Mr. Thieme's photo of the remains of the Whitetop turn-table also
> answers another question:  How many communications circuits were on the
> Abingdon Branch?
>
>
> There are four insulators on the pole.  Since we know that the Abingdon
> Branch, being built quite late, was operated by telephones rather than by
> telegraph, and that a telephone circuit requires two wires, we may deduce
> that there were two telephone circuits on the Branch.  (Vis-a-vis telegraph
> circuits, which require only one wire and use an earth return.)
>
>
> The Time Tables give us the long-and-short combinations for ringing the
> various stations.  But now let me ask Mr. Duncan, since he worked those
> jobs, and if he is on the wire -- What was the ring combination for the
> Train Dispatcher?  That is to say, if you were at Whitetop and wanted to
> raise the DS on the Train Wire, what combination of longs-and-shorts would
> you use for him?
>
>
> And while you are at it Mr., Duncan,  How did you rung the DS from the
> phone circuits on the Saltville Branch, the North Carolina Branch, and also
> from the Narrows and Potts Valley Branches, if you ever heard about those
> two.
>
>
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