NORFOLK - Two More Questions for Mr. Bundy

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 Abe - regarding yardmasters controlling main track movements -- Yardmasters could designate to trains which yard track to set off or pick up cars, but could not govern main track movements.  On Norfolk Terminal, there may have been two exceptions.  As reminded by Dr. Blackstock -- there was a "hold-out" signal at Yadkin (east end of the Dismal Swamp). If there were no empty tracks for inbound coal, the train would be held there until track(s) were made empty.  Then, a yardmaster would notify Bridge #7 to clear the signal allowing the eastbound to proceed.  The other exception MAY have been at Lamberts Point yard.  The yardmaster would notify a switch-tender which turnouts (manually thrown) to line up for an arriving train.  In the 14-miles from Yadkin, the main lines were designated Automatic Block Signal (ABS) territory.  However, it came close to being Centralized Traffic Control territory. There were two interlocked bridges (staffed by bridge tenders ?)  and at least 4 interlockings -- just east of Bridge 7, the Belt Line had a "push the button" interlocking on their South Branch.  Trains going to the branch would stop clear of U. S. 460, press the button that notified Bridge 7 they were ready to cross.  Next was South Norfolk staffed by a VGN operator who controlled crossings of VGN-N&W main lines.  Next was N. S. Junction that handled N&W's crossing with NS Railway's Berkley Branch (N&PBL had trackage rights). Next was Bridge No.5.  Can't say whether or not Bridge 5 controlled the next interlocking, but  control of the junction between the N&W main line (to Norfolk Terminal Station) and the Lamberts Point Branch MAY be designated in N&W's Norfolk Div. Time Table # 7 (eff 11/09/1947) as Lovitt Avenue.  I did not find Lovitt Avenue on Mapquest. 
    On Saturday, September 21, 2024 at 12:39:43 PM EDT, NW Mailing List <nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org> wrote:   

 
Larry Stone
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> On Sep 21, 2024, at 4:57 AM, NW Mailing List via NW-Mailing-List <nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org> wrote:
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> Aytsch -
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> 1. At Norfolk, where was the split-point between control of tracks by the Train Dispatcher, and control of tracks by the Yard Master ?
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> Which is another way of asking, Where did Main Track rules begin? (In the 20th Century world of the N&W, this change would normally have been made at an interlocking.)
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> 2. When the crew for a westward train went on duty at Lamberts Point, where did they Register their train and get their Clearance Card and Train Orders?
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> Thanks for your time, Sir. It is nice to have the experts around.
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