Automatic Journal Box Oilers - Shaffers Crossing Photos 1961-1962

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On 12/28/2024 11:34 AM, NW Mailing List via NW-Mailing-List wrote:
> In the photo of the three T-6 Class engines  pulling cars westward up 
> the Hump, my negative #101342, there is something which caught my 
> eye.  Look at the extreme right, just to the left of the dirt bank.  
> You will see two Position Light Signals, one governing eastward 
> movement and one governing westward movement.  Those signals are on 
> the old Eastbound Main Line, and I think they protected an 
> electrically locked, hand-operated switch in the main track, leading 
> to a crossover to a yard track.  Those signals were gone by the time I 
> hired in 1964, as the Eastbound Main Track had been downgraded to a 
> Yard Track between WB and Commerce Street, and used in classifying 
> coal which went over the Hump.

Abe,
     Those signals were replaced with dwarf type signals at some point 
in time and along with two others (tracks 57, 56 & 55) protected 
movement through the only "double slip switch" (power operated) on the 
N&W system. If I remember correctly, the hand operated switch on the 
crossover led to the "Mullins" track, where later on in life they parked 
our outgoing units on.

Jimmy Lisle