Work Proceeds Toward Cumberland Sub Signal Project
The month of June 2000 saw a great deal of activity in the vicinity of Cherry Run, West Virginia, as track and signal crews worked six and seven days a week in their effort to install an electro-code signaling system through that area, and to construct a new control point,with the end result that the Miller Tower interlocking station will be closed.
A Seaboard-style color-light signal, still turned sideways, is the first to be installed in the immediate area, and sits alongside number 2 track several hundred feet west of the road crossing at Cherry Run. Eventually it will serve as the new eastward absolute signal.
The work is part of a 60-mile project from Harpers Ferry to Orleans Road, and will include bidirectional signaling on the portion east of Miller and an upgraded system from that point west.
Four interlocking towers will be closed as part of the overall project. They include Miller, West Cumbo, Martinsburg and Hancock.
Miller is slated to be the first tower to close, and this will reportedly take place this coming September, provided the project is completed on schedule.