Missing Towers Around Roanoke

[NW Mailing List]

On 7/8/2019 6:36 PM, NW Mailing List wrote:

> 2.  UN TOWER, WEST ROANOKE - Date for installation and and removal of 
> interlocking.  UN was near the south side of the [later] large 
> Shaffers Crossing Round House.    The interlocking at this point seems 
> to have have been removed around 1906, when the big yard was 
> constructed west of [present] 24th Street.  The structure seems to 
> have remained standing until about 1940, used for an office building 
> with Operator, where crews registered their trains and got Train 
> Orders and Clearance Card, and I have no idea what else [e.g. a 
> yardmaster] may have been in the building.  UN  >>> may <<< have been 
> the N&W's first interlocking. [leaving HJ Hagerstown out of the 
> equation, as that was really another railroad's tower.]
>
> The railroad is notorious for not removing concrete forms. This could 
> be what was formerly on the concrete foundation located at 606. Looks 
> like they built a shed over it now.
>
Jimmy Lisle


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