N&W in 1909--I & S

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And thus easily confused . . .

EdKing
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  Touche!  But they are both three-letter words.

  Gordon Hamilton
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    Hmmm.  I thought the TUG Fork Branch went from Welch to Jenkinjones and the DRY Fork Branch went from Iaeger to Cedar Bluff . . .

    But, then, I'm just an old nitpicker . . .

    EdKing
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      Bluefield Daily Telegraph
      July 30, 1909

      EXTEND IAEGER SOUTHERN
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      Norfolk and Western Plans Connection With Clinch Valley Division at Tazewell

          There is an officially unconfirmed report in circulation that the Norfolk & Western intends extending the Iaeger Southern branch to a connection with the Clinch Valley division at or near Tazewell.  This would precipitate the building of stretch of road from the vicinity of Berwind, a distance of some fifteen or twenty miles, but is argued that it would save a haulage from the Berwind district for eastern coal shipments of nearly thirty miles.
          As it is now the Berwind eastern shipments must be hauled back to Iaeger before reaching the main line.  By building the connecting stretch, the eastbound haulage would not have to cover the dead distance back to Iaeger, but by a continuous trip could reach the main line at Graham.
          While the plausibility of the enterprise is apparent, there is nothing beyond the general report, that the company intends undertaking it, it is generally thought, however, that the talk has some foundation in fact, and that the intervening stretch will be built in the near future.
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      [The railroad's name was "Iaeger and Southern," not "Iaeger Southern."  According to the June 1906 N&W Annual Report the I & S had been conveyed to the N&W and was being operated as the Dry Fork Branch.  The June 1913 Annual Report gives the opening of the Tug Fork Branch between Iaeger and Cedar Bluff as April 15th, 1913, quite a bit later than the 1909 article speculated.]

      Gordon Hamilton


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