1907 - New Railroad Completed

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Roanoke Times - November 1, 1907

New Railroad Completed

  Bristol, Va., Oct. 31 - Special - The Black Mountain Railway, which 
is a continuation of the Virginia and Southwestern from Appalachia, 
Va., into the Lee county, Virginia, coal fields, has been completed, 
and trains for the handling of coal will now go direct from Bristol 
into the Lee county coal operations independent of the L. and N. 
system. This new road gives the Southern railway its first 
independent connection with the rich coal deposits of Southwest 
Virginia. The new road is nearly thirty miles in length.

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- Ron Davis, Roger Link