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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Tunga>Bluefield Daily Telegraph<BR>April 22,
1910</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV align=center><FONT size=4>IN CITY AND COALFIELD</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV align=center><STRONG>New Signal System</STRONG></DIV>
<DIV align=left> The Norfolk and Western has installed a
system known as a quadrant system of signals at the Hatfield tunnel near
Williamson and the new signals were put in operation on Wednesday. On
Monday the new system of automatic signals between Devon and Williamson will be
put in working order and from that time they will be used. The
superintendent has issued instructions which must be followed so as to preserve
life and property and to secure the proper working of the signals. These
are only a few of the improvements which the road is making at this time.</DIV>
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<DIV align=left>[<EM>The descriptive phrase "...quadrant system of signals...."
appears to be incomplete. It probably refers to upper quadrant semaphore
signals as opposed to lower quadrant semaphore signals because only two years
earlier (1908) the American Railway Association adopted three-position, upper
right-hand quadrant semaphore signals as recommended practice, and the N&W
would certainly have installed signals that complied with the latest industry
recommendations.</EM>]</DIV>
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<DIV align=left><FONT size=6 face=Script>Gordon
Hamilton</FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>