Bristol Line CPLs... (NW Modeling List)

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Bless ya, my son, for keeping that RD-Narrows machine.

Hope some day you can photograph the track plans and put 'em up here!

Merry Christmas!

EdKing
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  Subject: Re: Bristol Line CPLs... (NW Modeling List)


  EdK-
  In studying a proposal to combine the signal shops at
  Bellevue and Decatur with Roanoke, I rescued two
  cabinets covering "RD" to Narrows.  Following consoli-
  dation  of the Radford, Norfolk, and Shenandoah Divisions
  to a central office, the old TC cabinets had been brought
  to the signal shop and  left outside.  Believe the VMT
  got the Shenandoah Division machines.  Many of the
  Radford TC machines had been cannibalized.  The
  machines from the Norfolk Division had been donated to
  the Town of Crewe, but were left outside the gym of the
  old YMCA and the panels eventually faded and the
  cabinets rusted. The "RD" to Narrows machine is in 
  my basement.

  It's part of NS now, but during  a visit to the Atlanta signal
  shop, Southern had stored, undercover I might add,
  the entire TC machine for the CNO&TP.  Foresight !

  You know Bluefield and recognize that "RD" was the
  eyes and ears for dispatchers working the Narrows
  District of the Radford Division, hence the symbol "RD". 
  This interlocking was so important that at the time
  the Radford, Norfolk, and Shenandoah Divisions were
  combined to form the Virginia Division, consideration was
  given to renaming the interlocking "VD".  
                                                            Harry Bundy





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