Virginian in 1909--First coal car

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Bluefield Daily Telegraph
March 10, 1909

FIRST CAR OF COAL OVER THE VIRGINIAN
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Reached Norfolk Yesterday Afternoon--Officials Confer Relative to Tariff

    Norfolk Landmark:  The first carload of coal shipped by the Chesapeake and Ohio coal and coke Company over the entire line of the Virginian Railway will arrive in Norfolk tomorrow morning.  The contents of the car are consigned to the National Bank of Commerce, and will be used in furnishing heat and power for Norfolk's principal skyscraper.
    Mr. W. T. Anderson, local representative of the Chesapeake and Ohio Company, which will handle most of the coal that will be transported from West Virginian to tidewater via the Virginian, said last night that Mr. Charles M. Barnett formerly of Norfolk, new president of the coal company, will arrive here this afternoon.  Mr. Barnett's visit will be for the purpose of conferring with Mr. Anderson and officials of the Virginian relative to the coal traffic via that railroad.
    The car that is to arrive here tomorrow started from Deepwater, West Virginia, the western terminus of the Virginian's system, which extends a distance of 442 miles from Deepwater to Sewell's Point, where the vast shipping piers are located.  The car bears a banner thirty feet long and six feet wide bearing the name of the consignors and consignees of its contents.
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[Has anyone seen a picture of this car with the thirty foot by six foot banner?]

Gordon Hamilton
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