N&W in 1909--Called to new road

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I drove through Cairo some years back - almost a ghost town today.

pete groom
On Feb 18, 2009, at 8:29 AM, NW Mailing List wrote:


> Bluefield Daily Telegraph

> March 28, 1909

>

> CALLED TO NEW ROAD

> ------

> Roanoke Civil Engineer on the Cairo and Norfolk Railway

>

>     Roanoke World:  W. B. Hooker, a well known civil engineer, has  

> received a telegram requesting him to report at Mayfield, to begin  

> the survey for the proposed Cairo and Norfolk railroad.  The work of  

> surveying two sections of the road from Cairo, Ill., to Bowling  

> Green, Ky., is to begin at once.

>     It is planned to build these two sections at once, and after  

> that the road will run through the southwest via Roanoke to Norfolk.

>     Letters have been received here from Mr. Goode stating that the  

> road would be built through the southwest counties which are at  

> present undeveloped and then come to Roanoke.

>     Mr. Hooker, who will have charge of the survey on one section,  

> was for a long time connected with the Norfolk and Western.

> ------

> [In a May 6, 1908, article posted here Sep. 8, 2008, Mr. Goode was  

> identified as president of the C&N--, obviously not the immediate  

> past president of NS.  "Mayfield" is almost certainly the town in  

> Kentucky southeast of Cairo, IL and west of Bowling Green.]

>

> Gordon Hamilton

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