VGN Collier fleet? Seems like not.

[NW Mailing List]

Regarding the "fleet of colliers", the answer seems like "no".  An
examination of early VGN Annual Reports -does- have a section for "Floating
Equipment", but the only items are listed as "barges", and just three of
them at that.

- Marty Swartz

On Sat, Feb 21, 2009 at 8:15 AM, <nw-mailing-list-request at nwhs.org> wrote:


> Subject: Virginian in 1909--First coal train

>  Bluefield Daily Telegraph

> March 31, 1909

>

> TO WELCOME FIRST COAL TRAIN OVER VIRGINIAN

> ------

> *H. H. Rogers Invites Distinguished Men to Official Opening of His New

> Railroad*

>

>     The official opening of the Virginian Railway, of which H. H. Rogers is

> president and practically sole owner, will take place on April 3.....<snip>

>



>     The company has spent $2,000,000 in the construction of a steel

> superstructure "fendered" pier at its terminal at Sewalls Point.  The pier

> is 1,000 feet long, 60 feet wide, and 65 feet high, and will be able to

> accommodate colliers with a carrying capacity of 10,000 tons each, of which

> the company will have a fleet of ten or twelve.

> ------

> [*.....  Finally, is there any evidence that the Virginian ever had a

> fleet of ten or twelve 10,000-ton colliers as mentioned in the article?*]

>

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