N&W in 1903 -- Facilities

[NW Mailing List]

The "new" scale house in Bluefield is of interest, as we recorded a May 
1907 article of the scale house being replaced with a stone structure. 
Wonder if the 1903 building only lasted four years, or if it actually took 
that long to complete, and for the Roanoke newspaper to note the change?

- Roger Link

 > Roanoke Times - May 31, 1907
 >
 > Bluefield Items
 >
 >  The scale house which has done duty for many years, having weighted many
 > million pounds of coal, is being torn down and will be replaced by a
 > larger building. It is a stone structure and when built it was thought it
 > would do duty for fifty years. It is one of the landmarks of the place.

NW Mailing List wrote:

> CONTRACT LET FOR SIGNAL TOWER, SCALE HOUSE, AND MACHINE SHOP

> The machine shops in this city are to be enlarged by a handsome

> addition.  A new scale house is to be built and a signal tower also. These

> improvements are the latest decided upon by the Norfolk and Western. The

>  contract for these buildings has already been let to Messrs. Wilson and

>  Sear of Lynchburg, the firm who constructed the superintendent's house here

>  last June.

> 

> Bluefield Daily Telegraph

> April 19, 1903