<html><head></head><body><div class="yahoo-style-wrap" style="font-family:arial;font-size:16px;"><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><div><p class="ydpc624ca6dMsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black">Can anyone here elaborate on the specific location of the CTC
machine at Iaeger (WV)? </span></p>
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<p class="ydpc624ca6dMsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black">Old copies of the 'Railway Signal Engineer' list the quote “Iaeger
machine” as a 36-lever mechanical, installed in 1916. I believe this to have
been in the DY tower (Dry Fork Junction) at the wye west of town.</span></p>
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<p class="ydpc624ca6dMsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">The
January, 1948 issue of <span style="color:black">'</span>Railway Signaling<span style="color:black">'</span> mentions modifications of the interlocking at Iaeger,
which included “the removal of all mechanical interlocking facilities, and
arranging for control of all interlocked functions from a new miniature lever
interlocking machine in lieu of the present mechanical interlocking machine.”</span></p>
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<p class="ydpc624ca6dMsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black">Timetables from the 1950’s era are confusing. In the station table
for the Pokey mainline (i.e. Bluefield to Williamson), two offices are shown as
IAEGER, both at 57.2 miles (from Bluefield) and with office calls CT (the daylight
only agency and ticket office) and DY (a 24-hour interlocking station). Dry
Fork Junction at the west end of the wye, where the old DY tower had been
located, isn’t listed at all. Is it safe to assume that DY tower had been
closed by this time and that the CTC machine had been relocated to the depot/station
building, but continued to use the DY office call?</span></p>
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<p class="ydpc624ca6dMsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black">Any help would certainly be appreciated.</span></p>
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<p class="ydpc624ca6dMsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black">Ron Stafford</span></p>
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