N&W in 1909--News and gossip

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SOME "GOSSIP" CAME TRUE
 
    Please see underlined portions of this article and  confirmation of this 
purchase actually having taken place on January 31,  1909 as outlined in my 
summary citation following Gordon Hamilton's  signature.
                                                                              
          ~  Don Jackson       _NWinNscale at aol.com_ 
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Bluefield Daily Telegraph
January 30, 1909
 
TO BUILD TWENTY MILES OF DOUBLE  TRACK
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Norfolk and Western Prepares for Big  Undertaking--Other Railroad Gossip
 
    The Norfolk and Western, it  is learned from very reliable sources, has 
made preparations for the  commencement of one of the largest undertakings of 
late years along this  line.  Men will be put to work in a short time laying 
exactly thirty miles  of double track on the Scioto division.  The work will be 
begun in the  vicinity of Kenova and will extend all over the line.  Many 
parcels of  track which at present are built with the east and west line of rails 
will be  connected up with the new double track which will be made in time to 
extend over  the entire division.
    It could not be learned here  yesterday just when the work will begin but 
intimations which indicate that  the work will be commenced on the first of 
February have been made from sources  which are considered very reliable.  The 
work of double tracking the Scioto  division is in line with the work that has 
been done during the past three years  on the Pocahontas division and will 
when all the work is completed give the  Norfolk and Western a fine railroad 
extending from central Ohio to the  sea.  Gangs have been at work for some months 
completing the double  tracking along the Pocahontas division and several 
tunnels which have been  constructed have shortened the distance between 
Williamson and Bluefield by  several miles.  In addition to this, curves have been 
straightened and the  road generally improved.  Yesterday a large number of men 
employed in  construction forces were cut off on this division, but a great 
many more men  will be put to work on the Scioto division the first of the month.
    The extension of the Tug  Fork branch from Pageton to Anawalt will be 
opened for passenger traffic on  Sunday, February 7th, and for sometime past the 
branch out of Richlands into the  timber regions of that section has been in 
operation.  There is  some track talk which says that the Norfolk and Western 
has already laid plans  for securing the Virginia Anthracite Railway which was 
built for  the exploitation of the Virginia anthracite field which has never 
furnished the  tonnage that was expected of it.  The railway and mining company 
 have gone into the hands of a receiver, and it is very likely that the 
Norfolk  and Western may be able to take over the properties.
[The next sentence was too blurred on the  microfilm to be read.]
One of the gentlemen connected with the  Virginian Railway Company said to a 
Daily Telegraph man some time ago that the  Norfolk and Western was one of the 
marvels of the railroad world, inasmuch as it  pays much higher wages than 
other roads and yet through good management it has  always been able to make a 
better showing in the operating department than other  lines which pay even 
less wages.
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Gordon Hamilton
 
Virginia Anthracite Coal  & Railway Company -- Incorporated April 2, 1902 in 
Virginia;  connecting with the N&W main line at Christiansburg and extending 
to  Blacksburg, VA; purchased in  foreclosure by the Norfolk and Western  
Railway Company January 31, 1909, becoming the Blacksburg Branch, with N&W  
operations beginning January 1, 1912.
 
[Sources:
Corporate History Chart of the  Norfolk and Western Railway Company as of 
June 30, 1916, No. 50, a  large foldout, attached to the Twentieth Annual Report, 
1916.
 
Norfolk and Western Magazine,  10-1938, p. 408.]
 
 

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