1908 - Delayed by a Landslide

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Roanoke Times - January 14, 1908

Delayed by a Landslide

   A landslide occurred on the Norfolk and Western Railroad at about 
12 o'clock Saturday night a short distance east of Montvale, and 
resulted in delaying the passenger trains a good many hours. No. 1, 
No. 15, and No. 41, due here early in the morning, did not arrive until noon.
   The slide occurred in a cut on the new double track, and it was 
about eight feet deep. A large force of men were put to work 
shoveling out the loose dirt, but being in a cut, the task of 
removing it, was necessarily a little slow.
   Owing to the nature of the weather, the new track had been 
carefully patrolled, and consequently the landslide was discovered 
soon after it occurred, so that there was no danger at any time of 
its causing an accident to a train.

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- Ron Davis, Roger Link