1907 - Virginian Railway

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Roanoke Times - October 18, 1907

VIRGINIAN RAILWAY

Will Be in Operation by First of the Year

   It is stated that at the present rate of progress begin made, that 
the Virginian railroad will be in operation from a considerable 
distance west of Roanoke to Norfolk by the first of the year.
   The road is almost ready for trains all the way east from Roanoke 
to Norfolk, and there are only a few placed where the grading and 
filling is not completed. The company has a large force of men 
working at the different points and are now operating trains for 
nearly one hundred and fifty miles west from Norfolk. The track is 
completed and work trains are now operating west from Roanoke almost 
to Christiansburg.
   The big coal wharf has been completed here and it is generally 
understood that the principal offices will be located here. It is not 
known whether the principal shops will be here or not but the fact 
that the company has acquired considerable adjoining property to that 
which they already own is taken as evidence of their intention to 
locate some of their works here at least. A gentleman in the city 
from Norfolk, who is well informed in railroad circles, stated 
yesterday that the general impression prevailed that the shops of the 
company would be located here, as it was decidedly the most 
convenient point and the most centrally located.

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- Ron Davis, Roger Link