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Logan Runnin'
It's nautical twilight; coal buckets loaded at Pardee deep in the Appalachian Mountains shake and sqeal as their load-bearing steel wheels grind against the windy track geometry of the Gyandotte River bank. This scene has been repeated a hundred thousand times over on the premier coal artery of the C&O. Block signalling was installed on the 62-miles section of the Logan Sub between Barboursville and Peach Creek beginning in 1939, with controlled territory being overlayed on an 11-mile single-track section between WH Cabin and Ranger the same year. Traffic maxed-out near 28,000 loaded cars out of Peach Creek at this time. Though looking severely worn, the cantilever here at EEDT was not part of the original installation, or at least not here. Once double-track all the way to WH, Chessie System truncated all but a 3-mile section south of Barboursville to a single main and resignalled the line in the late 1960s/early 70s. This location was merely straight track running, Rule-251 and featured a mast pair down the tracks from this location
Barboursville, WV
January 6th, 2023
Logan Runnin'
It's nautical twilight; coal buckets loaded at Pardee deep in the Appalachian Mountains shake and sqeal as their load-bearing steel wheels grind against the windy track geometry of the Gyandotte River bank. This scene has been repeated a hundred thousand times over on the premier coal artery of the C&O. Block signalling was installed on the 62-miles section of the Logan Sub between Barboursville and Peach Creek beginning in 1939, with controlled territory being overlayed on an 11-mile single-track section between WH Cabin and Ranger the same year. Traffic maxed-out near 28,000 loaded cars out of Peach Creek at this time. Though looking severely worn, the cantilever here at EEDT was not part of the original installation, or at least not here. Once double-track all the way to WH, Chessie System truncated all but a 3-mile section south of Barboursville to a single main and resignalled the line in the late 1960s/early 70s. This location was merely straight track running, Rule-251 and featured a mast pair down the tracks from this location
Barboursville, WV
January 6th, 2023