1907 - Looked Like A Walk

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Roanoke Times - December 21, 1907

LOOKED LIKE A WALK

Situation Threatened for a Time to Close Down the Railroad

   The Tidewater and Virginia Anthracite railroads have had for 
several days a disagreement that threatened to make it necessary for 
the professors and boys of the Virginia Polytechnic Institute to walk 
to Christiansburg to get a train for their Christmas journeys home. 
It seems that the Tidewater purchased from the Virginia Anthracite a 
small piece of track at the junction of the two tracks near the 
Merrimac mines. The Anthracite road then started to grade for another 
track to take the place of the one sold, but the work was not 
completed. The Anthracite people continued to use the track they had 
sold to the Tidewater, and they were notified that this would have to 
stop on Dec. 15. When this date arrived, the new piece of road was 
still incomplete, and it has looked recently as if the order from the 
Tidewater would result in their having no means at all of getting to 
and from Blacksburg. The engineers of the Tidewater, however, were 
notified not to interfere with the operation of trains of the 
Virginia Anthracite Company, at least for the present, and therefore 
those who want to get from Blacksburg to Christiansburg to home for 
the holidays, will have no trouble in doing so.

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- Ron Davis, Roger Link