100 years ago...

[NW Mailing List]

Did this ever happen?  If not, why not?  (I thought that the  
Cannonball didn't reach N&W rails until it got to Petersburg.)

pete groom

On Feb 4, 2007, at 9:00 PM, NW Mailing List wrote:

Roanoke Times - February 5, 1907

N&W To Use Its Own Tracks

Will Build Track Into Richmond and Stop Paying Other Roads Toll.

Richmond, Va., Feb. 4, --Special-- The Norfolk & Western rails are to
be laid into the great union freight and passenger station and yards
which are to be built in the valley where the Chesapeake & Ohio
passenger station now stands. This statement is made on the highest  
authority.

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