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Re: (erielack) Re: Erielack Digest V2 #207

Please do not quote the entire digest in your response--- this is very hard
on people who have limited mail space or have dial-up connections.  Quoting
just the part of the digest that you're responding to would be much
appreciated.

At 10:33 PM 3/1/99 -0500, you wrote:
>Telephone Train order signals wer at two places and wer both in place into
>early Conrail. One was at the west end of Hornell Yard on the Buffalo Div.
>(right next to where the PS&N Hornell Br. connected-I don't think that the
>PS&N had anything to do with the signal)  The location MP333-1-B was called
>VN crossover, and i believe that it was to route Buffalo Div. trains around
>departing or arriving Alleghany Div. trains as they had only a single track
>into and out of Hornell.  The other Buffalo Div. TELEPHONE TRAIN ORDER
>SIGNAL (as they are called in my  Erie Employee TTBL. from  Oct.28, 1956)
>was for the center siding running westward from Canaseraga, NY  westbound
>the signal, which was a lower position flat top blade(as all telephone TO
>signals were) was located  at MP 343-1-B, and the eastbound signal was at
>345-2-B, making it a 2 mile passing siding.  During early Conrail this
>siding was full of out of service (90% EL) cars.  I have a number of shots
>of these signals which I've took over the years.
>           They wer remotely thrown to a stop position by the Dispatcher,
>and the train would stop and call the DS to find out what he wanted them to
>do; cross over at VN, or take the siding at Canaseraga.  It was kind of a
>poor man's CTC, and remember ther were no good radios as late as the mid
>70's.  David J. MOnte Verde "tequila_@_frontiernet.net"

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Rich Ahrens - New York, NY
"Anyone who isn't confused really doesn't understand the situation." -
     Edward R. Murrow

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