Names of Shortlines in WV and VA that made up the N&W railway andVGN.

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Gordon and Don,

I took a quick glance at the timeline and noted that the entry for N&W 
aquiring the lands held by Flat Top Coal Land association is incorrect.

The N&W acquired the Poacahontas Coal & Coke Company in 1901 that had 
purchased the lands of the Flat Top Coal Land Association.  The Pocahontas 
Coal & Coke Company was also the major stock holder of the Iaeger & 
Southern.

Th entry would probably more correctly read, 1901 - Pocahontas Coal & Coke 
Company, which owned about 300,000 acres of the Pocahontas coalfield, 
acquired by Norfolk & Western Railway.

(Just as a note I have sent similar correction to NS Corporation to ask them 
to correct their history on Pocahontas Land Company.  I covered this land 
acquisition, railroads and names changes on pages 39-41 of "Gary Hollow".)

I expect the land deal included the charters of the Tug River and North Fork 
Railroad (Tug Fork Branch) and Southwest Virginia Railway Company (Jacobs 
Fork Branch).  Each of these railroads were chartered by Ritter, Mann, and 
Hamill plus others.  The N&W formally placed its personnel on the Board of 
the South West Virginia Railroad Company on April 7, 1902, but did not 
discontinue operating as South West Virginia Railroad Company until April 
1908.

The N&W had a stock transfer and put its personnel on the board of the Tug 
River and North Fork Railroad on Jan 17, 1902.  The Tug River and North Fork 
Railroad Company was voted out of business on March 4, 1902 and officially 
discontinued business on March 10, 1902.

The N&W probably to over the Iaeger and Southern in January 1902 but the 
first records I have are the annual meetin gin April 1902 when N&W personnel 
are nominated to the board.  The Iaeger and Southern offically conveyed its 
property to the N&W on April 25, 1906 but the deed wasn't recorded until May 
4, 1908.  The railroad's charter was not officially discontinued until March 
1, 1912.

The Iaeger and Southern was officially valued at $165,370 on the McDowell 
County tax rolls in 1906; $1,046,103.67 in 1907 and $1,106, 674 in 1908.  I 
have the evaluations into 1913, but I would have to check the Court House 
records to see if they are for Iaeger and Southern or Dry Fork Branch.

Alex Schust


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> Don,

>

> The two N&W component railroads that you mention are just two among many, 

> many more that went to make up the later day N&W.  The best place I know 

> of for you to see these is the NWHS Web page 

> http://www.nwhs.org/nw_timeline.html.

>

> The Virginian history is much simpler.  Basically its main line components 

> were the Tidewater and Deepwater plus a number of coal field branch lines 

> that started as individual corporations.  Maybe someone else can tell us 

> if there is a timeline for the VGN similar to the one mentioned above for 

> the N&W.

>

> Gordon Hamilton

>

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> VGN.

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>> Folks,

>> I am looking into the N&W and Virginian Railroads.   Particularly the

>> shortlines that made up the lines such as the Ieager & Southern as well 

>> as

>> the recent line that was covered running from Virginia to Kentucky into 

>> WV

>> in the arrow.  Unforturnately someone has taken my N&W books as well as 

>> the

>> arrows from last year.  Any help would be grateful.  My purpose for these 

>> is

>> to show a history class that all big corporations start small.    Don 

>> Mills

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