Virginian in 1908 -- Predicted start

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Bluefield Daily Telegraph
September 11, 1908

IN SHAPE FOR THROUGH TRAFFIC FIRST OF YEAR
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Three Gangs, Each Making a Mile a Day, Laying Track on the Virginian Railway

    Track laying on the Virginian railway is, because of the fine weather, going forward with excellent dispatch.  It is reported from the general offices at Norfolk that the track is being laid now at three points on the line, from Roanoke west, from Deepwater east and Norfolk west.
    Each of the three track-laying gangs are laying about one mile a day, and as there are only about one hundred miles to lay, at the present rate of progress the work will be completed within a couple of months.
    There is some work, however, yet to be done aside from track laying, and that is the completion of the trestles and of the New River bridge, all of which work is being done as fast as possible.
    The bridge in question and the pier at Sewell's Point are, however, likely to be the last things to be finished before the big line shall be opened from Norfolk to Deepwater in this state, 446 miles.
    From present indications the road should be in shape for through traffic by January next.  Tracks is [sic] now laid over 211 miles of the road from Norfolk westward, and this part of the line is being lengthened at the rate of a mile a day at present.
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Gordon Hamilton
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